Andrew Bolt describes the irony of an aboriginal baby been 'stolen' just 300m away from where Rudd will apologise for the "stolen generations" -- and this, just two days before!

Baby 'stolen' from under PM's nose
Herald Sun, Andrew Bolt, February 13, 2008

KEVIN Rudd will this morning say his sorry just two days after the latest baby was "stolen" - from the Aboriginal tent embassy 300m away.

Nothing better symbolises the absurdity of the Prime Minister's apology to the "stolen generations".

The six-week-old baby was taken on Monday by two Department of Community Services officers who judged it was in danger in that squalid camp, now filled with Aborigines in Canberra to celebrate Rudd's sorry.

A Daily Telegraph reporter who saw the rescue said the baby's grandmother abused the officers as "criminals" who were "taking my family away". The child's father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said his baby was now one of the "stolen generations" - one of the 100,000 children we're told were stolen just because they were black, not because they needed help.

But this latest baby was in fact "stolen" for the same kind of reasons that had us "steal" Aboriginal children before.

The child's mother is reportedly in jail, and the Daily Telegraph said the father had lived in the tent embassy for six months. If you've seen that "embassy", you'll know it is no fit place for such a terribly young child.

So why does Rudd today say sorry for "stealing" children when we still "steal" the same kind of children for the same reasons from his own doorstep, under his own eyes?

Do not think this child is much different to those of the "stolen generations" to whom Rudd apologises.

Take Mary Hooker, presented by the Sydney Morning Herald this week as a representative of the "stolen generations" - one of the black children stolen by white racists for no good reason.

Hooker, a spokesman for the Stolen Generations Alliance, told her story in a video clip on the Herald's website, during which the camera panned over documents relating to her case.

I froze the picture to read what I could. And here is the true story of this "stolen generations" child.

Hooker's mother was in fact taken to hospital unconscious from an overdose of pills, and Hooker says she didn't wake up for two weeks.

She left behind her 12 children in a house that welfare officers found had plenty of rubbish but little food: "The only food available was three sausages and a small piece of steak."

There is no mention of any man in the house, but the documents show the dad of seven of the children was a prisoner at the Mount Mitchell Afforestation Camp, a low-security jail.

There is also no mention of abuse in what documents I could read, but Hooker last week admitted on ABC radio "there was also abuse going on in the community", and that she had been "raped".

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