On #SorryDay, I reflect on my long and ongoing journey of understanding the true history of #Australia and the issues faced by #Indigenous #Australians. My journey began with reading Alice Nannup's memoir and realising her connection with my Nan. 🖤💛❤️

Link to blog post on Tall And True: https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/blog/alice-nannup-and-my-nan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_68PTEJKVQ

"What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it." ~ Galarrwuy Yunupingu (Indigenous Australian activist)

National Sorry Day in Australia is observed annually on 26 May. This event was created to remember and commemorate the mistreat of the continent's indigenous people. https://anydayguide.com/calendar/2033
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Sorry Day? How can the government claim to be sorry for the actions it continues to do?

When Kevin Rudd first apologised for the Stolen Generations back in 08, our child removal rates were bordering on those of the official Stolen Generations policies of the 1900s.

Every year since, our child removal rates have continued to rise.

During the height of the stolen generations, it is estimated that anywhere from 1 in 5 to 1 in 10 Aboriginal children were taken. Today, 1 in 4 children come into contact with the system.

Many of these children aren't placed in the care of their extended family, or even their community.
Some of these children, in an act of continued assimilation practices, are even taken outside of this continent to be raised in places like Europe by white parents.

This kidnapping of our children by the colony must end. Our children aren't a commodity or novelty for settlers to acquire, they're our future and legacy, and they're real, living people who belong with their family on their country.

[from the BPU Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/share/19ZMyqCRBc/]

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Today is National Sorry Day.
Every May 26, Australia reflects on a deep national wound & commemorate the grief, trauma & loss experienced by the Stolen Generations—thousands of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families by the government.

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https://1earthmedia.com/national-sorry-day-remember-the-past-bring-the-babies-home/

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Fuck Sorry Day tbh.

They can get back to me when they're not still stealing our jarjum and killing us for parking fines.

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