The Wire

On the 13th February Kevin Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generations. Although he was widely praised for overturning John Howard’s refusal to say sorry, there was another generation who wondered whether they too would be acknowledged by the new Government. In the last century over 500,000 children were placed in in orphanages across Australia. Non-indigenous children counted for 450,000 of that number, sometimes sharing rooms with the Stolen Generations. A Senate inquiry in 2004 called them the “Forgotten Australians”, and recommended that the government apologise to them too.