{"id":3609,"date":"2007-08-02T08:59:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T08:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/08\/justice-for-the-stolen-generation\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:47:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:47:05","slug":"justice-for-the-stolen-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/08\/justice-for-the-stolen-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice for the Stolen Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small glimmer of good news amidst the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/7.30\/content\/2007\/s1994420.htm\">increasing storm clouds of concern<\/a> about how the loss of the Community Development Employment Program will make some Indigenous Australian communities unliveable and unviable.<br \/>\nFor the first time, an Aboriginal person who was removed from his family as a child <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,23599,22172820-29277,00.html\">has successfully sued<\/a> a state government for compensation.  In the South Australian Supreme Court, Justice Thomas Gray ordered the South Australian Government to pay Bruce Trevorrow $525,000 &#8216;for injuries, loses and false imprisonment&#8221;.<br \/>\nIn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austlii.edu.au\/au\/cases\/cth\/federal_ct\/2000\/1084.html\">an earlier Stolen Generation case<\/a>, the pain that Lorna Cubillo and Peter Gunner endured in telling their stories led nowhere for them.  Let&#8217;s hope the South Australian Government doesn&#8217;t tarnish Trevorrow&#8217;s victory by appealing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small glimmer of good news amidst the increasing storm clouds of concern about how the loss of the Community Development Employment Program will make some Indigenous Australian communities unliveable and unviable. For the first time, an Aboriginal person who was removed from his family as a child has successfully sued a state government for &#8230; <a title=\"Justice for the Stolen Generation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2007\/08\/justice-for-the-stolen-generation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Justice for the Stolen Generation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigenous-australia-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4332,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}