'From Sorry to Action': Sorry Day Renews Calls for Progress
- National Sorry Day, held annually on May 26, honors Indigenous children forcibly removed from their families between 1910 and 1970, known as the Stolen Generations.
- The 1997 Bringing Them Home report made 83 recommendations to support survivors, but only six percent have been implemented nearly 30 years later, according to Shannan Dodson of The Healing Foundation.
- Survivors often face ongoing trauma, poorer health, and economic disadvantages linked to forced removals, with advocates calling for a whole-of-government approach to support healing before the report's 30th anniversary.
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National Sorry Day and the Return to Yearly, Insufficient Sacrifices
Yesterday was “National Sorry Day,” an annual observance in Australia on May 26 that commemorates the “historical mistreatment” of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, with a particular focus on the so-called Stolen Generations.It’s a day on which White Australians are expected to acknowledge and confess the sins committed by their White ancestors, offering apologies on their behalf, year after year, without any clear endpoint or lasti…
National Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week – a time to reflect and go ‘all in’ – 16 News
Today is National Sorry Day, a time when we acknowledge the lasting impacts caused by the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. Survivors and their descendants continue to demonstrate incredible strength and resilience, ensuring their stories and truths are shared. National Reconciliation Week, which starts tomorrow, is a reminder of the role we can all play in strengthening relationships betwe…
Survivors waiting for justice 3 decades after Bringing Them Home
Today, on National Sorry Day, First Nations advocates urged the public to stand alongside survivors of the Stolen Generations and push governments to act on the unmet recommendations of the landmark Bringing Them Home report. Nearly 30 years ago, that report gave governments a roadmap to justice, but survivors are ageing and dying while governments delay, Julie Tongs OAM, CEO of Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health and Community Services, argu…
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