Editing Stolen Generations (section)

===New South Wales===
Compensation claims have been heard by the [[NSW Supreme Court]]'s Court of Appeal in ''Williams v The Minister Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 and New South Wales'' [2000] NSWCA 255 and the Australian Federal Court in ''Cubillo v Commonwealth of Australia'' [2000] FCA 1084. In ''Williams'', an individual (rather than a group of plaintiffs) made claims in negligence arising from having been placed under the control of the Aborigines Welfare Board pursuant to s 7(2) of the ''Aborigines Welfare Act 1909'' shortly after her birth, and was placed by the Board with the [[United Aborigines Mission]] at its Aborigines Children Home at [[Bomaderry]] near [[Nowra, New South Wales|Nowra]], NSW. The trial judge found that there was no duty of care and therefore that an action in negligence could not succeed.{{Explain|date=May 2017}} This was upheld by the NSW Court of Appeal in 2000.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

In relation to whether the action in NSW courts was limited by the passage of time, the Court of Appeal, reversing Studert J, extended the limitation period for the non-equitable claims by about three decades pursuant to s 60G of the ''Limitation Act 1969'' (''Williams v Minister'', ''Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983'' (1994) 35 NSWLR 497).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=McMahon |first=Karen |title=Set - back for Stolen Generation: Williams v The Minister, Aboriginal Land Rights Act & Anor |date=1999 |journal=Indigenous Law Bulletin |volume=79 4(24) 11 |url=https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/1999/79.html |access-date=3 June 2022 |via=AustLII |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707212650/http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/1999/79.html |archive-date=7 July 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Australian Prime Minister [[Kevin Rudd]]'s 2008 [[Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples]] was not expected to have any legal effect on claims for compensation in NSW.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/13/2161485.htm |title=Apology will not legally impact compo claims: Law Society |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |date=13 February 2008 |archive-date=2 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302062445/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/13/2161485.htm}}</ref>

New South Wales set up a scheme running from 1 July 2017 until 30 June 2022, enabling survivors to claim {{AUD|75,000}} compensation. Its funding also allows for a healing fund, allocating grants to healing centres, memorials and keeping places, as well as a separate fund to help fund Stolen Generations members' funerals. There were estimated to be between 700 and 1,300 survivors in NSW in 2017.<ref name=cscomp/>