Following the revelation in Quadrant (“Compensation and Aboriginal Corruption”, March 2022) 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, the federal government has quietly abandoned this element of its Territories Stolen Generation Redress Scheme. Announced last August and commencing on March 1 this year, the scheme includes individual payments of $75,000 to Stolen Generations claimants removed by the Commonwealth in the Northern Territory or Australian Capital Territory before self-government (1978 and 1989 respectively) or in Jervis Bay up to…