Pressure still on for ’sorry’ compensation
Patricia Karvelas; 27/5/08
The federal Government is resisting pressure to compensate victims of the Stolen Generations three months after Kevin Rudd delivered his historic apology in parliament. The Prime Minister yesterday marked National Sorry Day by unveiling a calligraphic manuscript of the apology, which will be displayed in Parliament House in Canberra. The Government will next month meet members of the Stolen Generations and health, trauma, child protection and family reunion specialists, “to map a way forward together”.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23763858-5013404,00.html
Sorry Day observed with one eye on the future
Miki Perkins and Misha Schubert; 27/5/08
Nova Kerr did not cry when she attended her mother’s funeral last year, not a single tear. She was taken from her parents in Mildura as a toddler in 1973, and her life followed a path familiar to fellow members of the stolen generations — a fragmented childhood in abusive foster homes, deep distrust of those in authority and an inconsolable sense of loss. The mother she buried years later was a woman she had hardly known, and her father died before Ms Kerr could be reunited with him.
See: http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/sorry-day-observed-with-one-eye-on-the-future/2008/05/26/1211653938533.html
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