Nothing Less Than a Genocide

Some commentators such Sir Ronald Wilson have alleged that the Stolen Generation was nothing less than a case of genocide, because it was widely believed at the time that the policy would cause Aborigines to die out.

Similarly, the expressed preferences of government bureaucrats, such as A.O. Neville, to merge the Aboriginal race into the white population by means of "breeding out the colour", and therefore eventually resulting in the former being "forgotten", bore strong similarities to the views of the Nazis in 1930s Germany.

Though the term 'genocide' had not yet entered the English language, the practices of Neville and others were termed by some contemporaries as the 'die out' or 'breed out' policy, giving an indication of its proposed intent of a typical genocide.