Resources

Little Red Yellow Black Site
Aboriginal Studies Press. Online resources including teachers notes Complements the publication Little Red Yellow Black Book, Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2008 (which includes information on the Stolen Generations and the Apology)

Torres News

Apology will ‘make a difference’, Torres News, 22 February 2008

Apology a ‘turning point’, Torres News, 22 February 2008

Emotions flow in Townsville, Torres News, 22 February 2008

Church says ‘Sorry’ over Boigu landing

Parliamentary Debates

Members of Parliament spoke on the Apology in the House of Representatives for one week following the Apology. Their speeches are online.

House of Representatives Hansard:
Wednesday, 13 February 2008 (includes balance for Tuesday, 12 February) : Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples -- Thursday, 14 February 2008 -- Monday, 18 February 2008 -- Tuesday 19 February 2008 -- Wednesday 20th February 2008

Senators spoke on the Apology in the Australian Senate for a number of days following the Apology.
Senate Hansard:
Wednesday, 13 February 2008 -- Thursday 14 February --Tuesday 11 March 2008 – Wednesday 12 March 2008 – Thursday 14 March 2008

Photos

Witnessing the Apology, online photographic exhibition by Juno Jemes

Photos for downloading from Reconciliation Australia website

Flickr – Australia Says Sorry

Flickr - Sorry - the parliamentary apology - speeches in the Member's Gallery

National Apology Breakfast Reception from Premier of Queensland website

National Apology, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade photos

Images from a Stolen Childhood at ABC website

Stories from the Stolen Generations

Us taken-away kids(pdf) : commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Bringing them home report / [edited by Christina Kenny], N.S.W. : Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission, [2007]

"Remember me"(pdf) : commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Bringing them home report.
Publication info: North Fitzroy, Vic. : Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care, 2007.

DVDs to buy

It's A Long Road Back
Director: Coral Edwards
Released: 1981
Duration: 12 minutes
ISBN 978 0 85575 628 4
Between 1883 and 1969, approximately 6,000 Aboriginal children in New South Wales were taken from their families and put into institutions run by Aborigines Welfare Board. While in the ‘homes’, the children were deprived of their Aboriginal identity. This film tells of the effects that such an upbringing had and the struggle of one woman to regain her Aboriginality.
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Link-Up Diary
Director: David MacDougall.
Released: 1987
Duration: 90 minutes
Audience: secondary, tertiary
ISBN 978 0 85575 629 1
A film about the effects of the New South Wales government's long-term practice of forced removal of Aboriginal children. It takes the form of a personal journey by film-maker David MacDougall as he spends a week 'on the road' with three workers of Link-Up, an Aboriginal organisation devoted to reuniting Aboriginal families whose children were taken.
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Beyond Sorry
Produced by CAAMA
"At 8 years of age Zita Wallace was labelled a "half caste" & taken from her traditional Eastern Arrernte family by government authorities. 54 years later Zita returns to her birth place to live out her days on her people's Central Australian country. Available in DVD Only"
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