Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2021) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stolen Generations aged 50 and over: updated analyses for 2018–19, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 01 June 2023. doi:10.25816/69kw-7h07
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2021). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stolen Generations aged 50 and over: updated analyses for 2018–19. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stolen Generations aged 50 and over: updated analyses for 2018–19. AIHW, 2021.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stolen Generations aged 50 and over: updated analyses for 2018–19. Canberra: AIHW; 2021.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2021, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stolen Generations aged 50 and over: updated analyses for 2018–19, AIHW, Canberra.
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This report provides estimates of and analysis of comparative differences for the Stolen Generations survivors who were aged 50 and over in a 2018–19 survey. They were more likely to be worse off than other Indigenous Australians of the same age on a range of health and socioeconomic outcomes. The findings in the report will be useful to assess the needs of the Stolen Generations and their families.
There were an estimated 27,200 Stolen Generations survivors aged 50 and over in 2018–19
Stolen Generations aged 50+ were 1.8 times as likely as other Indigenous Australians of this age not to own a home
There were an estimated 33,600 Stolen Generations survivors in 2018–19
1 in 5 Indigenous Australians aged 50+ in 2018–19 had been removed from their families
In 2018–19 there were an estimated 27,200 surviving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 50 and over who had been removed from their families and communities as a result of past government policies. This represents around 1 in 5 (or 21%) of the total estimated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population aged 50 and over in the scope of the 2018–19 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey.
These survivors among the Stolen Generations who are aged 50 or over are of special interest because of their greater needs for health, disability and housing services. This report presents detailed comparative analyses on a range of health and socioeconomic characteristics between the Stolen Generations aged 50 and over, other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are also aged 50 and over but who were not removed from their families, and the general non-Indigenous population aged 50 and over.
The findings of this report show that the Stolen Generations aged 50 and over are more likely to be worse off than other Indigenous Australians of the same age on a range of health and socioeconomic outcomes. These results are consistent with a previous Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW 2018a) report which analysed a similar set of outcomes for the Stolen Generations aged 50 and over from an earlier 2014–15 survey.
End matter: Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; References; List of tables; List of figures; Related publications
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