ABC News http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/daily/newsnat-9mar2000-41.htm Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:55 AEDT Stolen Generation [sic] given access to records For the first time, members of Australia's so-called Stolen Generations will have unrestricted access to Commonwealth records concerning Aboriginal people. An agreement has been signed between the National Archives of Australia and a Victorian Aboriginal agency to help Koories re-unite with their families. The archives hold more than 100 years of records on Aboriginal history. The president of the Aborigines Advancement League, Rick Henderson, says the agreement has a personal significance. "What it means to me personally and to the Aboriginal community is being able to trace or have records available and for Koorie people or Aboriginal people to trace their family history and give them a form of identity," he said. 1999 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ************************************************************************* This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
