Here is an excerpt from "The Australian":

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/

~ The new stolen generation

~ Caroline Overington | August 22, 2009

~ WELFARE workers have swooped on the opal mining town of Lightning ~ Ridge in northwest NSW, removing more than 40 Aboriginal children ~ from decrepit homes in shanty towns.

~ . . . .

~ Aboriginal women, stunned by the removals, say it amounts to a ~ "modern-day Stolen Generation", but the most recent statistics ~ on child removals show Aboriginal children are being taken from ~ their parents in numbers much greater than the Stolen Generations.

~ Official figures from the Australian Institute of Health and ~ Welfare show there are now more than 9000 indigenous children in ~ state care -- a figure that far outstrips the number that were ~ taken in the 1920s and 30s.

Read the rest here:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25964264-601,00.html