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" Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians. "
Year
Indigenous
Health
" If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations. "
Help
Play
Sometimes
" In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks. "
End
Minds
Distance
" Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help. "
Home
Sorry
Small
" Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand. "
New
Fishing
Zealand
" Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention. "
Medical
Health
Family
" People die because they find living too painful. "
Living
People
Find
" Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action. "
Changes
Action
Change
" Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions. "
Indigenous People
People
Indigenous
" Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians. "
Sorry
Chance
Challenge
" There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster. "
Disaster
Poverty
Indigenous
" Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial. "
Said
Design
Government
" We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face. "
Indigenous People
People
Overcoming
" We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life. "
People
Life
Healing
" Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members. "
Family
Indigenous People
People
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