If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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But even some of the programmes that are in place are missing their target, because we have not yet set up a conversation with the stolen generations.
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