There Are No Quick Fixes To Indigenous

Over 120 Aboriginal Communities Run Their Own Health Services - Some Have Been Doing So For 30 Years. They Struggle With Difficult Medical Problems. They Also Try To Deal With Counselling, Stolen Generations Issues, Family Relationships, Violence, Suicide Prevention.

We Are Seeing Healing Among The Stolen Generations, And Initiatives Which Are Enabling Indigenous People To Make Their Distinctive Contribution To Our National Life.

Even Australians Who Take A Very, Very Hard Line About Asylum Seekers - And Unfortunately There Are More Than I Would Like To Think - Are Probably A Bit Uncomfortable With The Kind Of Treatment That Has Been Meted Out To Children In Detention By The Australian Government, In Their Name.

Three Years Ago The Government Announced The Creation Of Reconciliation Place, And Said That It Would Include A Memorial To Those Removed From Their Families. However, They Refused To Include Any Of Those Who Were Removed In The Design Of Their Own Memorial.

In The Last Twelve Years, We Have Come Some Distance Towards Reconciliation And The Breaking Down Of Disadvantage. Let Us Take Encouragement From What Has Been Achieved And Set Our Minds And Hearts To End The Remaining Roadblocks.