Focus Question 1- Why did the Australian government decide to take the children and what led to this? The Australian government believed that in the early 1900s, to maintain white culture, they would have to subject all indigenous people to their beliefs. Removing children from Aboriginal parents was not a new idea, it had happened almost a decade before they became the Stolen Generation. The removal policy was strengthened with the introduction of the assimilation policy. White people believed that they were the dominant culture and that their way of life and culture was the only way. Throughout the Stolen Generation, the Australian public was led to believe that Aboriginal children were disadvantaged in their homes and would benefit more in a white family. The Aboriginal Protection Board believed that if children lived in white families and were separated from their families, communities, land and culture, indigenous peoples would eventually be phased out. However, this decision to remove the children was not beneficial and caused a lot of hatred from the Aboriginal people towards the Australian government. Focus Question 2: What were the consequences of the Stolen Generation? The Stolen Generation was an epic historical event in Australian history with many repercussions and consequences. Some of the consequences include depression, distrust, loss of culture, and many other long-term emotional effects. The children were not allowed to see their families and told they were orphans to prevent them from looking for their real families. They were banned from speaking their native language or following their culture, received minimal education, received poor food and living conditions, and were forced to engage in low-level domestic or agricultural work. They also often suffered physical or sexual abuse. It is for these reasons that even today many Aboriginal people have long-term emotional effects and carry these events from 1900 to the grave. Question 3: What has changed since Kevin Rudd's sorry speech and the Bringing Them Home Report (BTHR)? The Stolen Generation endured many hardships; however there have been events such as Kevin Rudd's 2008 Apology Speech and the Bringing Them Home Report (BTHR) in 1997 which have helped many Aboriginal people develop closure. The BTHR was the first acknowledgment by the Australian Government that The Stolen Generation was an event in Australia's history that it regretted. The report included documentation of Aboriginal people removed from their homes as children, which contradicted the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights".’.