Australia to offer redress payments to some of its ‘Stolen Generation’
Canberra, Australia Reuters Australia said on Thursday it will offer redress payments of $A75,000 to some members of its Indigenous population who were forcibly removed from their families as children. More than 100,000 Indigenous children were taken from their families and communities between the early 1900s and about 1970, described by former Prime Minister Kevin […]
Australia marks 13th anniversary of Indigenous apology
Canberra, AustraliaReuters Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday marked the 13th anniversary of an official government apology to the country’s Indigenous population for their historic mistreatment. Morrison said past actions, including the removal of more than 100,000 Aboriginal children from their families and communities, had to be acknowledged. “In acknowledging that fact, I repeat […]
Essay: Australia, roll up your sleeves. The real work begins now
DAVID ADAMS reflects on this week’s apology…
Essay: The national apology to the Stolen Generations
Read the full text of the historic national apology read in the Australian Parliament on 13th February plus links to both the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader’s speeches…
Indigenous Australia: Hopes that saying sorry to the Stolen Generations is ‘just the first step’
DAVID ADAMS speaks to Graeme Mundine, executive secretary of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Commission (NATSIEC), about what the national apology to the stolen generations means…
Essay: The hearing of ‘sorry’
In a paper written for the Social Issues Executive at the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, ANDREW CAMERON, ANDREW FORD and LISA WATTS examine why it seems so important for ‘sorry’ to be heard from the lips of the nation’s leader, and what the sticking-points against saying it are…