Although the figures vary, it is estimated that over 10000 children have been removed from their aboriginal homes over a recent 100 year period. Government policy during this time determined that children living in unsuitable circumstance should be removed to care homes or privately adopted . There are suggestions that the real policy was to exterminate the aboriginal race by making them more white. Time has shown the failure and cruelty of past policies with generations of stolen children and their natural families suffering geatly . It is only in recent decades that organisations have been able to reunite separated families and the wider community come to accept the tradegy of past events ( )