"The child's welfare usually had nothing to do with these decisions,"
wow - now that's a big call.
One only has to listen to the stories to pick up that this is not true. Over the last few days I've heard people describe how they were living on the side of a river in a tent, were hiding in holes in the river bed, that there parents had "gone away", that there was no food in the dwellings, that their mother had tried to kill herself and was in hospital - and similar. But these were just given as background facts and in all cases the speaker went on to tell how they were stolen. In all cases that I heard (ABC) the interviewr never pressed them on these facts.
Read Noel Pearson's article - he spells it out how the circumstances were widely different - some good, some bad.
Does anyone feel for the people who thought they were helping these children, who actually did help them? They have been condemned.
