The MidCoast community will come together today to reflect on our past and look to the future, at a National Sorry Day event to be hosted at the Purfleet-Taree Local Aboriginal Land Council.
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This year’s National Sorry Day marks the twentieth anniversary of the “Bringing them Home” report being tabled in parliament, a report that highlighted the historical mistreatment of Aboriginal people. As an important date in our national calendar, it is a day of bringing communities together to express regret, and to acknowledge the ongoing need to work together to build a truly reconciled nation.
Today’s event will commence at 10am, and is hosted by MidCoast Council in conjunction with Manning Support Services, Biripi ACMC, Mission Australia, and Taree Indigenous Development and Employment (TIDE).
“Today represents an opportunity to strengthen the bonds in our community, and it reflects our commitment to closing the gaps that exist here in the MidCoast region in education, employment and health”, explained Paul De Szell, MidCoast Council’s director, community spaces and services. “It’s vitally important that our past is not forgotten, but acknowledged and passed down to future generations as a way of paying respect to the Stolen Generation”.
The Stolen Generation represent an estimated 100,000 children who were forcibly removed from their Aboriginal families between 1910 and 1970.
The National Sorry Day commemoration will take place from 10am to 2pm today, May 26, at Taree-Purfleet Local Aboriginal Land Council, Lot 1-3 Old Pacific Highway, Purfleet.
To find out more about National Sorry Day visit www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/key-resources/conferences?cid=3234
