The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commitee (HREOC) puplished in 1997 the report "bringing them Home" which verifies that Aboriginal children were being forcibly taken from their families well into the 1970s in order to integrate them into "white society"

In 1997 it was decided that a total of $63 million would be paid as compensation for the injustice of breaking up families. By 1999 only a quarter of this sum had been paid out, and the recommended founding of a National Fund had not been acted upon.
All in all, it is clear that both national and interantional interest in and action regarding rasism in Australian has weaken very substantially since the end of the Olympic Games 2000.

In May 2002 a r t a l f a e. V. submitted to HREOC and CERD written inquire as to the amount of outstanding debt.

a r t a l f a e. V. consider the establishment of European Reconciliation Fund a long overdue symbolic act which, more than merely contributing to discussions about reconciliation, actively and concretely deals with the roots of this injusice.

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