There Are No Quick Fixes To Indigenous

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

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.

Last Year The National Sorry Day Committee Consulted With Stolen Generations People In Every State And Territory, And Concluded That Programmes Set Up In Response To The Bringing Them Home Report Are Reaching Only A Small Fraction Of Those They Are Intended To Help.

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.

Development Requires Modification And Transformation Of The Environment... The Planet's Capacity To Support Its People Us Being Irreversibly Reduced By The Destruction And Degradation Of The Biosphere And The Need To Understand The Problem And Take Corrective Action Is Becoming Urgent.