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21.01.2022 'Sorry' skywriters reunite 20 years after Bridge Walk for Reconciliation reveal 'it almost didn't happen' Pia van de Zandt and her housemates fundraised and booked a pilot, and Fiona Mitchell and her friends paid a Queensland pilot....As a child migrant from the Netherlands, Ms van de Zandt felt a strong urge to acknowledge the traditional owners of the place that had given her a new life.....As a young Aboriginal Legal Service lawyer, Pia van de Zandt remembers the charged a...tmosphere leading up to the bridge walk. See news article attached for more information https://www.abc.net.au//sorry-skywriters-reunite-/12290098
20.01.2022 The 26th of May each year is Sorry Day, marking the day on which the Bringing Then Home report was tabled in Federal Parliament in 1997. Sorry Day is the day on... which we commemorate the Stolen Generation, a tragic episode in the nation’s history with the forced removal of children from their parents and families. #stolengeneration #nationalsorryday #wearesorry See more
11.01.2022 National Apology to the Stolen Generations by Hon. Kevin Rudd
07.01.2022 On December 10, 1992. The Hon. Paul Keating Prime Minister of Australia gave the following address to launch the International Year of the World's Indigenous People. The speech addressed many of the injustices suffered by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the previous 200 years. This speech was recently voted as the most important speech ever given in Australia.
04.01.2022 Sorry Day, observed nationally on the 26th of May, remembers and acknowledges the mistreatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly... removed from their families and communities, and became known as The Stolen Generations. CAAMA Radio spoke with Senior Arrernte and Anmatjere Woman Patricia Ansell Dodd, who is a historian, a former resident of the St. Marys Home and a member of the Stolen Generations. She speaks about what National Sorry Day means to her and how it affected her life and family.
