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Sorry, Not Sorry: How the Apology speeches paved the way for mass Aboriginal child removals
Eighteen years after the National Apology, the systematic removal and racial tar...
BJ Newton 13 Feb 2026
Victorian apology undercut by policies driving Aboriginal children into care and youth justice
While this week's Parliamentary apology to First Peoples is a "historic step," V...
Dechlan Brennan 11 Dec 2025
'Grounded in truth-telling': Victoria’s First Peoples welcome historic state apology
Indigenous people across Victoria have welcomed the state government's historic...
Dechlan Brennan 10 Dec 2025
Analysis: A historic apology delivered under the weight of 190 years — but will real change occur?
Gough Whitlam pouring sand into Vincent Lingiari's hands in 1975. Bob Hawke at t...
Dechlan Brennan 9 Dec 2025
'Lands and waters were taken, communities displaced': Victorian Government delivers state apology to First Peoples
The Victorian Government has issued a formal apology to First Peoples for harms...
Dechlan Brennan 9 Dec 2025
Victorian Government to formally apologise to First Nations people

The Victorian Government has announced it will deliver a historic apology to First Nations people. The apology, scheduled for December 9 in Victorian Parliament, was recommended by the Yoorrook Justic...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Nov 27, 2025
Explainer: What is Sorry Day and who is apologising?

National Sorry Day, also known as the National Day of Healing, is commemorated every year on 26 May across Australia. The day recognises the Stolen Generations - Indigenous children who were forcibly...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Aug 25, 2025
'Truth, justice and healing' to be a focus at NAIDOC National Forum in Boorloo/Perth

The NAIDOC National Forum to be held in Boorloo/Perth on Whadjuk Noongar Country on July 4 will feature a team of notable speakers, Indigenous leaders from a range of fields.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jun 26, 2025
Calls for more action as Apology to Stolen Generations remembered in Victoria

Survivors, advocates and the broader community gathered in Naarm on Thursday commemorating a "momentous occasion" which "still affects us deeply" on the 17th anniversary of the National Apology to the...

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Feb 14, 2025
"It's just not so easy to simply forget": Survivors gather for 17th anniversary of stolen generations apology

Speakers at a breakfast commemorating the anniversary of Kevin Rudd's apology to the stolen generations have lamented the lack of action on the bringing them home report, 28 years onward.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 13, 2025
A better future has memory at its core, PM to tell Stolen Generations survivors on Apology anniversary

The apology to the Stolen Generations was never meant as the end of the story, rather the beginning of a new chapter, the Prime Minister will say in his speech on the 17th anniversary of Kevin Rudd's...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 12, 2025
Joe Biden to apologise for government role in horrors of Indigenous boarding school system

US President Joe Biden said he will formally apologise on Friday for the country's role in forcing Indigenous children for over 150 years into boarding schools, where many were physically, emotionally...

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Graham Lee Brewer Oct 25, 2024
State apologises to Stolen Generations in quiet Melbourne ceremony

An historic apology has been offered to Victoria's stolen generation victims by Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan. Ms Allan made the personal apology on behalf of the state government on Thursday in Mel...

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Callum Godde Oct 11, 2024
NT Police Commissioner resigns from union following criticism of apology to Indigenous people

Northern Territory's Police Commissioner has taken the unprecedented step of quitting the NT Police Association after the union criticised his historic apology to Indigenous people at the Garma Festiv...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 7, 2024
Stolen Generations survivor shares emotional but liberating story of her life on Apology anniversary

A Stolen Generations survivor has been 'liberated' after sharing her experience with a crowded room for the first time, 16 years on from Australia's formal apology expressed to Aboriginal and Torres S...

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Feb 13, 2024
Emotional breakfast at 16th Anniversary of the Apology to the Stolen Generation

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney addressed a gathering on Tuesday marking the 16th anniversary of the apology to the Stolen Generations.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 13, 2024
Apology anniversary to shine light on ongoing child removals

On the eve of the anniversary of Australia's national apology to the Stolen Generations, Indigenous advocacy group Children's Ground has called for action to stop the escalation of children being remo...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Feb 12, 2024
Letter to Canberra Raiders suggests Mitchell, Wighton were asked to admit guilt before going to court

Latrell Mitchell and Jack Wighton were asked to deliver public apologies to ACT police before heading to trial or pleading guilty in exchange for more lenient sentences.

Andrew Mathieson Andrew Mathieson Nov 8, 2023
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