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From the diary of a protector of aborigines.(aboriginal policy and child welfare issues in Western Australia)

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| April 01, 2003 | Marchant Leslie R. | COPYRIGHT 2003 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

THE MOST TRAGIC outcome of Sir Ronald Wilson's tract about "Stolen Children" is that it has unfairly robbed generations of dedicated public servants who worked with Aboriginal people and communities as field welfare officers and Protectors in the former Department of Native Affairs in Western Australia of their good names and reputation--possibly forever and without redress. Generations of them have been lumped together as one, and branded as agents of some sort of genocide and with stealing children, with as little chance of defending themselves as Senator McCarthy's victims, who were condemned and robbed of their reputations in his crusade.

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