Sentences with phrase «sorry day»

The report also called for the establishment of a Sorry Day and a national apology to those affected by separation.

The Hon Jenny Macklin, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs; Professor Mick Dodson, Co-Chair of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples from their Families and Co-Chair of Reconciliation Australia; Helen Moran, Chair of the National Sorry Day Committee; Mark Bin Barkar, Deputy Chairperson, National Stolen Generations Alliance; My fellow speakers - Alec Kruger, Jeannie Hayes, Alfred Coolwell and Lena Yarrey; Contributors to the Us Taken - Away Kids magazine — Lorraine McGee - Sippel, Elaine Turnbull, Robert Stuurman, Bev Lipscombe, Mary Hooker, Emily Bullock and Charles Leon; Members of the stolen generations; Representatives of Link Up, Sorry Day Committees and Reconciliation groups; My Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander brothers and sisters; and Friends.

The first national Sorry Day was held on 26 May 1998 — one year after the tabling of the Bringing them home report — and has since been held annually.

That current funding arrangements be extended to provide adequate funding for National Sorry Day activities.

The photo was taken in Canberra, on National Sorry Day, 25 May 2008.

I was honoured to formally respond at Parliament House to the Parliament's Apology on behalf of the National Sorry Day Committee and Stolen Generations Alliance.

One of the report's recommendations was for «a national Sorry Day (to) be celebrated each year to commemorate the history of forcible removals and its effects».

I have been asked by the National Sorry Day Committee and the Stolen Generations Alliance; the two national bodies that represent the Stolen Generations and their families, to respond to the Parliament's Apology and to talk briefly about the importance of today's events.

«Black people had to do a lot of work last week and it wasn't even Invasion Day, Sorry Day, or NAIDOC Week,» said University of Queensland senior lecturer, Dr Chelsea Bond, an Aboriginal (Munanjahli) and South Sea Islander Australian, in this must - read piece at IndigenousX.

We're pleased to participate in a number of National Reconciliation Week events in 2017, including the Banyule City Council Sorry Day Smoking Ceremony and Flag Raising in Ivanhoe, City of Whittlesea's event to commemorate National Sorry Day, a community barbecue run by North Richmond Community Health, Yarra Libraries» Reconciliation on the Rooftop, Yarra Ranges Council's Healing the Spirit event, a cooking show at Prahran Market from Charcoal Lane highlighting native Australian food, culture and hospitality, and a Maribyrnong City Council possum - skin cloak making event in Footscray.

Without being prescriptive, it may be that Sorry Day in May 2008 provides the ideal timing.

[92] Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, «National Healing Foundation consultations start on National Sorry Day» (Media Release, 26 May 2009).

I note, for example, comments by the Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Mr Tony Abbott at Sorry Day commemorations in May this year.

The National Sorry Day Committee made a similar proposal.

The Prime Minister continued his stance on an official apology throughout the community debate leading up to Sorry Day on 26 May, 1998, and maintained the distinction between addressing concrete issues such as health and housing and the symbolic act of apologising.

Unlike the widespread Aboriginal use of the term «sorry business» to denote death, they see a Sorry Day as a means of restoring hope to people in despair.

On the contrary, the fact that Sorry Day itself became a discussion that dominated much of the week will have focused attention on past policies towards indigenous Australians and on the more general issue of black - white relations.

Carol Kendall and Greg Thompson chaired the National Sorry Day Committee.

A transcript of the Sorry Day statement is found in Appendix 3.

We will be guided by the outcomes of this conference, the results of the consultation project undertaken by PIAC, ATSIC and the National Sorry Day Committee, and the feedback from our own extensive networks.

The division over Sorry Day has not vindicated the Federal Government's decision against an apology on behalf of the nation to the stolen generations.

I have received a letter from the East Waikiki Primary School explaining that an assembly will be held to commemorate the «First National Sorry Day» at the school.

Over the previous eighteen months, ATSIC and HREOC, alongside the National Sorry Day Committee and stolen generations groups, had participated in a reference group formed by PIAC to guide the process of furthering the reparations tribunal proposal.

The decision, which at heart was a grassroots one, to mark the first anniversary of the release of the Human Rights Commission report on the «stolen generations» (Bringing Them Home) with a Sorry Day produced controversy and, it must be said, division.

There have been distinct patterns of debate since the launch of Bringing Them Home, such as whether individuals and our national leader should apologise; whether there should be a national Sorry Day; the understanding of words such as «guilt» and «shame»; the Inquiry's finding of genocide; the issue of compensation and reparation; the intersections with debates about native title and reconciliation; and the reassessment of Australian history and identity for which the Inquiry was viewed as a catalyst.

There were ambivalent feelings about the value of some community activities such as Sorry Day, the Sorry books and the entire notion of reconciliation.

People power to urge the holding of a national «sorry day» is one way for us ordinary people to respond to the stolen children Report.

Sorry Day will be an important step on the road which all Australians are «walking together».

The National Indigenous Working Group on Stolen Generations has invited non-Indigenous people to join them in a National Sorry Day.

The committee recommends that the Federal Government's stolen generation working group (comprising of stolen generation representatives from the National Sorry Day Committee and the Stolen Generations Alliance) be charged with the responsibility of monitoring the implementation of the recommendations of the Bringing them home report, and providing advice to government on the implementation of outstanding recommendations of that report by the end of 2008.

The criticism of Sorry Day as an unduly emotive and sterile exercise is strange in a country which rightly honours the defeats and sorrows of the past in other contexts.

Others spoke of Sorry Day as being difficult, and compared it to the unveiling of child sexual abuse or domestic violence.

Each State and Territory has established affiliated Sorry Day Committees / Networks.

The Dubbo Reconciliation Group launched a sorry book in Dubbo today and will be presented to a delegation representing Indigenous Australians on national «Sorry Day»?

There was also a strong feeling that non-Indigenous people thought that once Sorry Day was over, then that was that.

Sorry Day has raised this pain for people all over again.

The convening of a National Congress of this type could also include other Indigenous advocacy bodies as appropriate (for example, national secretariats for Torres Strait Islander organisations, Indigenous women, health organisations or legal services, Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committees, Sorry Day or Stolen Generations representative organisations and so on).

If «sorry day» is to become a regular occasion, it can only be as a community event.

At least that was the response from Herald readers last week during the big Sorry Day debate which dominated the page for four days.

In Perth, Sorry Day was commemorated in the forecourt of Parliament House which included apologies from government and churches.

The Australian Catholic Social Justice Council of the Catholic Church in Australia, statement on National Sorry Day, May 26, 1998.

You would be hard pressed to find a newspaper, television or radio station that did not make mention of Sorry Day activities and National Reconciliation events over the past week.

The commission's report suggests that there should be an annual «sorry day».

The NIWGSG received a grant of $ 20,000 from ATSIC to assist it in its organisation of Sorry Day activities.

[you'll be sorry some day!]

Wow... sorry your day didn't end up the way you wanted, but still the rather of the day sounded like it did!

I'm sorry your day has been so rough.I'm glad you are volunteering for the food committee.

Sorry that day out cost me half a weeks wages to attend, if he wants my appreciation it will cost him half my weeks wages in return.

Sorry day when such a legend as Arsene Wenger stoops so low as to expect help from other clubs.

All you non-believers will be sorry the day Judgment Day does come, and billions die when Skynet finally becomes self aware and starts the prophesied nuclear strike on America, Russia, and the rest of the world.