Sorry Day 2022

"Sorry for the bloodshed on southern hemisphere nights

when star-fires glow lower than colonial torches...

Sorry for small pox.  Sorry for genocide. 

Sorry for Stolen generations...

Sorry for rotten healthcare, for lost languages flaming to sherry-coloured oblivion..."

Excerpt from Lee, K. A-H. (2018). Meditation on National Sorry Day. Bamboo Ridge, (113), 194.

National Sorry Day is a day to remember the day a national report "Bringing Them Home" was officially handed to the Australian Government and to acknowledge the strength of the Stolen Generation survivors.

In 1992 Prime Minister Paul Keating acknowledged for the first time that children were taken from the arms of their parents by force.  An inquiry was held between 1995-1997 with the final report released in 1997.

In 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd officially apologised for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.  

To the Stolen Generation and those affected by the unjust laws and policies, we acknowledge your pain, we are amazed by your strength and we look forward to creating a better future together.

If you want to read up on more resources on the Bringing Them Home report you can search our resources on the topic.