In 2008 lead singer of The Seekers Judith Durham collaborated with a group of Australian identities, including First Nations identities, to write a new national anthem.
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Reconciliation: a timeline
By Maddi Smith @SmithMads
Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week 2018
By Thomas English @thomasjenglish7 On Sorry Day and during Reconciliation Week Australians say sorry for the policies that led to the Stolen Generations. For more than 100 years the government had an official policy of removing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. The majority of children were taken between 1869 and 1969, but […]
Reconciliation Week 2018: Connections
Thank you for joining us for today’s program, ‘Connections’, in recognition of Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week 2018. Today we acknowledge the ongoing anguish felt by families torn apart by government policies that created the Stolen Generations. We grieve that there is still so far to go before we close the gap. In ‘Connections’ we […]