Usually means: Aboriginal children forcibly removed, assimilated.
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  1. stolen generation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. stolen generation: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Stolen Generation: Wiktionary
  4. Stolen Generation, Stolen generation, The Stolen Generation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. stolen generation: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Stolen Generation)

noun:  (Australia, mass noun) Collectively, those Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who as children who were removed from their families by government agencies or church missions, between approximately 1869 and (officially) 1969.
noun:  (Australia, usually in the plural) Collectively, those Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were removed from their families as children, within some given generation (nominal period of time over which children grow up, before having children of their own).

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