Burney will say the apology wasn’t just an acknowledgment of past government wrongdoing, but a commitment to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney will draw a direct link between Kevin Rudd’s apology to the stolen generations and the Indigenous Voice to parliament, saying many people who boycotted the former prime minister’s landmark address now say they regret it.in refusing to support the national apology to survivors of the stolen generations and their families in 2008, Burney will say on Sunday that people shouldn’t “repeat the mistakes of the past”.
She will say it led to the annual Closing the Gap targets, the Commonwealth’s redress scheme in the Northern Territory and the ACT, and the Uluru Statement of the Heart which recommended a Voice to parliament.“The apology was an acknowledgment that, over decades, governments of different persuasions failed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples,” Burney will say. “It was also a commitment to do better in the future.
“A future that ensures we have a Voice on the issues that affect us,” Burney, a Wiradjuri woman, will say.
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