In the 20th century, the Australian government made a policy stating that any children who were part aboriginal descent were to be taken from their family and assimilated into the white population and society. Between the 1900s to approximately the 1970s, thousands of Aboriginal children were parted from their friends and family, often by force and placed in government and mission institutions. For many Aborigines, this was a time of grief and great sorrow. The idea was to blend the part Aboriginal children into white society, forcing them to drop many of their customs and traditions. Once removed from their family, the children were then given new names and birth dates which were meant to break the cultural and family bonds between the parent and child. Both girls and boys were taken; children from the age of 2 - 4 were taken but some were taken almost immediately after birth...