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Indigenous peoples globally face unequal access to justice and government services, as well as the loss of their identity as a result of policies designed to assimilate them by destroying their culture. In Australia the dispossession of Aboriginal Australians from their land and resources has contributed to their impoverishment and ill-health. From 1900 to 1969, Australian Aboriginal children were removed from their families to assimilate them into the white way of life. This chapter explores how this experience of forced assimilation has affected many Indigenous people's lives and some of the efforts to redress this historic abuse of their human rights.
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