Towards Truth project shows Australian history wasn’t always black and white

The parliamentary record shows former ALP member turned independent Patrick McGarry was under no illusions about the cruelty of the policy “to steal the child away from the parents”, or the true motivation behind it.

“It is the mean settler who wants to get absolute control over these children to make them work for him,” McGarry told parliament. “He is supported by the mean policeman, who depends for promotion on the mean settler and mean squatter.”