Publications

Hard copies of the following publications can be purchased from:
dargavels@ozemail.com.au

Stolen or Rescued?  Historical government perspectives on the removal of Indigenous children from their families 1911 - 1964.
Dr. Peter Read, in the Centre for Cross Cultural Studies at the Australian National University, provided this material to the Network in June 2000.

A number of Community Progress Reports have been published on ACT action towards the recommendations of the 1997 Bringing them home report.

Ways Forward - Report on a consultation workshop with
Indigenous workers in 1999. 

Are we Bringing them home?

Canberra Journey of Healing Network, 1999
ISBN 0 9578251 0 2

The first Community Progress Report grouped all the Bringing them home recommendations into subject areas, and summarised the actions needed. It then reported on those actions. Low awareness of the report and its issues was found, and apologies by some churches were the main actions identified.

Are we Bringing them home in 2000?
Canberra Journey of Healing Network, 2000
ISBN 0 646 37690 X

The second report used the same format, and found that awareness of some of the issues had grown.
Strategies to improve services to Indigenous people were starting to be developed in Government agencies
.

Are we Bringing them home in 2002?
Canberra Journey of Healing Network, 2002 ISBN...


The third report used the same format but did not repeat the content of the earlier reports. It made a number of recommendations to progress those actions that were still outstanding.