Examining Australia's secret history of Aboriginal population control
Few people know that eugenic practices seeking to limit Aboriginal populations continued even in the second half of the 20th century.
Source: crikey.com.au
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Few people know that eugenic practices seeking to limit Aboriginal populations continued even in the second half of the 20th century.
Indigenous people have long spoken about coercive practices of officials and experts around birth control, as late as the 1960s. Now historians are finding evidence in the government’s own records.