Spitting Into the Wind

A man who has won the nation's first Stolen Generations compensation case says the judgement is a "leap forward" in the push for reconciliation.

Ngarrindjeri man Bruce Trevorrow has been awarded $525,000 in the South Australian Supreme Court for being taken from his family when he was just 13 months old.

Don't tell me the Government is going to compensate every "stolen generation" person. Who pays for that, I wonder. One comment on the story summed this up perfectly for me:

I spoke to a mate about him being one of the stolen generation and he said, "If I hadn't been taken away I would now be sitting in the dirt drinking, instead of having a good job a great family, a car and boat and I certainly wouldn't be playing golf with you now."

What about all the children taken from their addict and alcoholic parents? Are they not also stolen children? They too are put into foster care and have similar troubled lives. Are we going to compensate them too?