Tag: Stolen Generation

  • Deadly work at grassroots

    More than 160 social and emotional wellbeing staff from organisations across Australia met in Brisbane this week for the national SEWB conference.

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  • Flashback: Deadly Sounds Episode 410 – Kutcha Edwards

    In an emotionally charged interview from 10 years ago, we speak with Uncle Kutcha Edwards

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  • Heal our past, build our future together

    For Miranda Tapsell the Apology to the Stolen Generations created greater understanding and ultimately healing of a ‘dark part’ in Australia’s history

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  • The Apology – Jeremy Donovan

    On the morning of ‘The Apology 5 Years On’ concert held at Federation Lawn in Canberra, February 13, 2013, The Healing Foundation Champion, Jeremy Donovan, talks about his personal healing journey and the significance of Kevin Rudd’s apology for his own family.  [tubepress video=”qBkTnfZpHng”]

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  • The Apology – Jasmine, Florence Onus

    Florence and Jasmine Onus from The Healing Foundation talk about the ongoing significance of Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations, as well as the work of The Healing Foundation in supporting Stolen Generations members and their families in their healing journeys. [tubepress video=”e8A1ahnn-qc”]

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  • The Apology 5 Years On – Kevin Rudd

    Kevin Rudd speaks to the crowd at the 5 year anniversary celebrations of the Apology to the Stolen Generations in Canberra. [tubepress video=”GFVSzF6U220″]

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  • Archie Roach headlines The Apology

     Legendary Aboriginal singer and songwriter Archie Roach will headline the “The Apology – Five Years On – Heal our Past, Build Our Future” free concert to be held on the lawns in front of Parliament House, Canberra on 13 February, 2013. The concert is hosted by the Healing Foundation and celebrates the fifth anniversary of […]

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  • The Apology, 5 years on

    A concert featuring the Black Arm Band will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the historic Apology to the Stolen Generations on 13 February on the lawns of Federation Mall, Parliament House. The free concert features an amazing line up of award-winning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians, including Microwave Jenny and hip hop sensations The […]

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  • Facing fear

    Loss and grief counsellor and member of the Stolen Generations, Rosemary Wanganeen remembers 1987 well. She was in a women’s shelter, following family violence, and wondering how she had ended up there, yet again. “I knew that I couldn’t go into the future to find my way, but I realised I could go into the […]

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  • Healing the Spirit

    Since the National Apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008, the Healing Foundation has been engaging with communities and funding healing initiatives, but there is more work ahead, Chair of the Foundation Florence Onus says. In 2012 the Healing Foundation supported The Deadlys’ Lifetime Contribution Award for Healing the Stolen Generations. The award is designed […]

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  • Keeping Place – Eve of Apology event February 12

    Keeping Place/Eve of Apology event On the eve of the anniversary of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008, a group is gathering in Redfern to commemorate the one-year anniversary of this historic occasion. It also the eve of an ever approaching eviction for Uncle Gordon and Aunty Elaine Syron, who […]

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  • Healing journey

    One year on, schools acknowledge the apology to the Stolen Generations One small word changed the course of the nation. One year on, there is still much to be done in terms of reparation to the Stolen Generations and in addressing the social and economic inequities of Indigenous Australians. The power of Prime Minister Kevin […]

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  • Share Our Pride – The First Australians

    Reconciliation Australia has developed a ground-breaking new resource for workplaces, schools and individual Australians in an attempt to meet the huge, post-apology demand for information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their history and cultures. The site is being launched this month, to coincide with the first episode of SBS TV’s series The First […]

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  • Bringing Them Home – You Don’t Have To Do It Alone

    Bringing Them Home counsellors came into existence in the late ’90s in response to the growing number of Indigenous families dealing with the effects of the Stolen Generations. Sandy Laughton is a Bringing Them Home (BTH) counsellor at the Goondir Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Service in Dalby, Queensland. Goondir Health Service looks after […]

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  • Thank You, Australia!

    To say it was a day of celebration would be incorrect. But there was definitely something in the air on Wednesday, February 13 ” an almost tangible sense of relief, tinged with the kind of sorrow that few can comprehend. A sorrow that was, finally, officially acknowledged for the first time. Prime Minster Kevin Rudd […]

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