It’s 19 years since the ‘Bringing Them Home‘ report was tabled in parliament, outlining the plight of the Stolen Generation and decades of forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families.
National Sorry Day is an opportunity to reflect on the hurt, dispossession and loss of culture those children experienced, and the disconnection that subsequent generations will continue to experience as a result.
It is also a day for education, to work towards reconciliation and recognition of this shared Australian history, to ensure it never happens again.
Producers:
Speakers:
- Blakeview School student
- Chrissy Jacques Doolan
- Executive of the National Stolen Generations Alliance and a Public Officer at Circle of Hope Incorporated in South Australia
- Jamie Goldsmith
- Kaurna man with a cultural and kinship connection to people on the Yorke Peninsula and the Ngarrindjeri people of the Coorong
- Kaylene Brown
- Lily
- Stolen Generations survivor