1.   At the time, new antipsychotic drugs made medicating patients in the community seem a humane alternative to long-term hospitalization.

2.   Against this backdrop, prisons across the country are increasingly turning to hospices as a humane alternative.

3.   The hospitals were closed at a time when new antipsychotic drugs made medicating patients in the community seem a humane alternative to long-term hospitalization.

4.   Under the policy, children were taken from their families in the belief that Aborigines were doomed and saving the children was the only humane alternative.