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From Yarrawonga in Victoria’s Yorta Yorta country, Ian Hamm shares with Dan Bourchier how his own story of being a “stolen child’ sparked his life-long deter...
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Jun 2, 2021 · Ian Hamm is one of the more than 33,600 living Stolen Generations members identified by a new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and the Healing Foundation.
- 'A Step at A Time'
- Black Dissent Is Not Divisive – It's Empowering
- 'Our People Have Got This Figured Out'
Ian Hamm is a Yorta Yorta man and the chairperson of The First Nations Foundation based in Victoria. "I'm idealistic," he says, "of course I want a national treaty." But he's also a pragmatist. "Over 35 years of doing this, it teaches me and tells me you need to take it as a step at a time," Mr Hamm says. "You may want to get to the end much quicke...
Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander woman, a journalist, and the University of Queensland's Poche Scholar. She says the Voice debate has been starved of oxygen. "A lot of black dissent to the Voice, a lot of valid black questioning or critique, is framed in a certain way," Ms McQuire explains. "It's framed as irrational or unjustified....
Roy Ah See is a proud descendant of the Wiradjuri Nation, and a member of the Uluru Dialogue Leadership. Like Ms McQuire, he believes dissent is healthy – not divisive. "You only have to see a Land Council meeting to see different views and heated debate and discussion," Mr Ah See explains. In fact, First Nations people have already demonstrated th...
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Feb 13, 2018 · Ian Hamm was among generations of indigenous Australians who were separated from their families. Ten years ago, Aboriginal Australian Ian Hamm welcomed words he had been waiting a lifetime...
Sep 10, 2023 · Ian says the referendum will reveal who we are. As a member of the Stolen Generations, Ian Hamm has spent his adult life working to reform the systems that govern Indigenous people's lives.
Feb 13, 2018 · Ian Hamm was among generations of indigenous Australians who were separated from their families. Ten years ago, Aboriginal Australian Ian Hamm welcomed words he had been waiting a lifetime...
Ian Hamm was a newborn when he was taken from his family. Global Citizen spoke with Hamm, now the chair of the Healing Foundation’s Stolen Generations Reference Group, about how generations of children lost connection to family, land, culture and language and why acknowledging the truth is the first step to healing.
