Reconciliation

Week
By Sophie, Tori, Amirah and Hayley JR

1998: National Sorry day

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ORIGINS OF NATIONAL SORRY DAY

The day was announced in the Victorian

parliament.

National Sorry Day was first

commemorated on May the 26th 1998,
Tuesday.
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The policy created six decades worth of

what was called the "stolen generation",
children whom lost their culture and
family.

Offical acts of reconciliation did not

finish with 'The Apology'. The next year
Australia signed the UN declaration on
the rights of indigenous peoples
 What do they mean?

Reconciliation: the act of reconciling or

the state of being reconciled.

To reconcile: to bring into agreement or

harmony.

Declaration: the act of declaring.

Generation: the entire body of individuals

born and living at about the same time
How did National Sorry Day Affect
Australia?

National Sorry Day was a

step towards accepting
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Peoples and
admitting what our past
generations have done.
To remove a great stain from the nations soul.

Kevin Rudd
Please celebrate
Sorry Day on the
26th of May