Australians: How do you feel about compensation for the 'Stolen Generation'?

Question

Australia

Personally, I think the money should be used to build hospitals and children's units as opposed to giving the tax dollars away to individuals.

You?

Answer 1

I think they deserve the tax dollars, come to think of it.. Look at what happened to them when white people first came to australia? If that happened to you, you would be thinking differently..

We do need more hospitals and childrens units too..

Answer 2

Well, your country want to be Yanks.  On the one hand, the Yanks won't even acknowledge that genocide is wrong, let alone compensate it - on the other, an inadvertent slight can cost millions in the courts.

Building hospitals etc. is the governments responsibility anyway - courts will not sentence you to pay taxes in a criminal prosecution (kidnapping is a criminal act) or order this as compensation in a civil one.

As far as becoming "an archtype for the world", I think you are a decade or five too late.  Look at New Zealand.

Answer 3

I totally agree with you mate.... They will spend the money their way, and the peeps (talking general people), will continue being held back.... The money should be used to build more hospitals that can help these people more..... Just my opinion, BTW, I miss Australia, I wish I was there.....

Have a great Day....!!!

Answer 4

Non-indigenous Australians have a chance here to become archetypes for the rest of the world.

Not only by saying, "Sorry" in a national and public formum but by also integrating indigenous Australians into the political process!!!

Gooday!!!

Answer 5

I hope that if compensation is paid that the matter is then laid to rest.   For as long as I can remember the whole country has had the "guilt" tax laid on them for sins immemorial.   I think we have paid compensation 20 times over through the  years and this is just one more coin in the bottomless ocean of "sorry".   I really wonder how the 1/3rd of Australians that were never a part of this feel.    I personally think that the best way is what is happening now.  Let the court system deal with it.   There are plenty of people out there who were removed from their families for reasons of abuse and violence, just as happened with the general Australian community.   The courts should be the ones to determine the merits of each individual case.   I personally think this is going to be very divisive for Australia.   Foreigners seem to think we give them a pretty raw deal.  They should try living here - where Aborigines pretty much are above the the law, get a free ride at our expense all in the name of "guilt" over past sins.   I think it is about time that a truth and reconciliation commission be set up to deal with it all, and the laws start becoming equal for everyone - and not one law for us and another for others.    As it stands the Australian society is only going to think that Aborigines are getting yet another freeload at everyone else's expense.