Following the revelation in Quadrant (“Compensation and Aboriginal Corruption”, March […]

Quadrant revealed in March that current and former Territories ministers Anthony Albanese, Paul Keating and Barnaby Joyce could be called upon to apologise to children 'stolen' during their tenures as the responsible ministers. Well what do you know! That provision has been quietly scratched from the Commonwealth's National Indigenous Agency webpage

On August 5, as part of the government’s Closing the Gap Implementation Plan, $378 million was set aside for 'a financial and wellbeing redress scheme for living Stolen Generations members'. Amongst the many open questions, it remains to be seen what assessment mechanism is established to reconcile the government’s fiduciary duty to the public purse with its stated aim