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The Healing Foundation CEO Fiona Cornforth with Adam Stephen, ABC Radio Queensland Drive Topics: Healing, Torres Strait Islands, intergenerational
Eileen Cummings was forcibly removed from her family when she was just four years old. She remembers playing on the homestead's verandah at the station where she lived, when a man pulled up in a truck, asking if she wanted to go for a ride. The next thing she knew, they were driving away from the station. "I was removed from my mother, my Country, my people, everything, and put into an institution at Croker Island," Ms Cummings said. "We were removed because we were classed as half-caste children. "...For the first few years I cried and cried because I wanted my mother."
Announcement comes three months after families began legal action over policy of forced assimilation.
Stolen Generations survivors have poorer health and socioeconomic demographics than other Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians of the same age.
A new report has found there are more Stolen Generations survivors than first thought, but they're more likely to be sicker and poorer than other First Nations people.