Grandmothers Against Removals call for support

Grandmothers Against Removals call for support.

Activists from the national movement Grandmothers Against Removals joined the Aboriginal protest convergence in Canberra over the Invasion Day long weekend, including the march on Parliament House.

Many of the Aboriginal families attending the convergence were suffering from the impact of the continuing forced removal of children by welfare agencies across the country. More than 14,000 Aboriginal children are now in “out of home care”, more than at any time in Australia's history, including at the height of the Stolen Generations of the 20th century.

Several of the grandmothers remain camped at the Aboriginal tent embassy and have vowed to maintain their protest camp until a big demonstration in Canberra planned for February 13, the anniversary of Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations.

While at the camp, they will continue their work of providing support and case advocacy for families struggling to have their children returned, along with making preparations for the upcoming demonstration.

The grandmothers are calling on supporters to join them at the embassy, to help with preparations for February 13.

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This is the result of the racism needed to sustain a settler society—the indigenous people are not human beings. The governments throughout Australia fervently believe that the Aboriginal children have to be removed for their own safety.

To deny the right of children to grow up in their own family and culture is a form of genocide.

It also shows that Kevin Rudd's apology was just words—there was no cessation of removal; and certainly no compensation of the victims of the Stolen Generation.