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Authorities often relocated Indigenous people from their traditional lands, known as Country, and forcibly separated Indigenous children from their families, resulting in a "stolen generation" because of policies that ran from the mid-19th century to the 1970s.

The government apologised for the so-called 'Stolen Generation' in 2008.

As many as one in three Indigenous children were removed from their families between 1910 and the 1970s in a bid to assimilate them into white society, an action described by former prime minister Kevin Rudd as a "great stain" on the nation's soul during a formal apology to the so-called 'Stolen Generation' in 2008.

It was also a journey of self-discovery: of who he really was, where he had come from, his homosexuality and what it meant to be an Aboriginal Australian and a member of the so-called Stolen Generation, Aboriginal people who for decades as children were removed from their families by the government and forcibly assimilated into white society.

Maori have called children taken into state care as New Zealand’s “stolen generation” - a reference to indigenous Australians forcibly taken from their families as children under an official policy of assimilation.