First anniversary of apology to Australian Aborigines

• Print
• Email

Updated February 13, 2009 16:15:41

The Aboriginal flag has been flying on Australian government buildings today, beside the Australian flag, as the nation marks a year since the Prime Minister said sorry to the Stolen Generations. It came some 30 years after the end of the officially sanctioned policy of the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their parents. The symbolism was enormous, as Kevin Rudd rose in the national Parliament a year ago and spoke of the searing pain, hurt and humiliation, and the sheer brutality of the act of separating a mother from her child.

Presenter: Linda Mottram
Speakers: Aboriginal elder Lorraine Peters; Fred Chaney, former Minister of Aboriginal Affairs

• Listen:
• Windows Media

• Export orders roll in for Fiji bamboo clothes company
• Rudd wants real change in Fiji before easing sanctions
• Growing concern in Fiji over Public Order Decree
• UN monitoring promised new freedoms in Fiji
• Encouraging sign of new gold and copper find in PNG
• Transparency calls for naming of Vanuatu diplomats "on commission"
• PM says good PNG-Indonesian relations in national interest
• Queensland remembers last year's floods