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" 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. "

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" We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life. "

" There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster. "

" People die because they find living too painful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand. "

" 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. "

" We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face. "

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" Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions. "

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" Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members. "

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" Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action. "

" 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. "