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The Federal government has announced 87 million dollars in funding over four years, to support survivors of the stolen generations. The Commonwealth says the funding will go towards family tracing and reunification, advocating for trauma-informed health services and improving access to redress schemes. The announcement coincides with the eighteenth anniversary of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's national apology. More than a hundred survivors have marked the occasion at Parliament house.

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00:01As I said in the chamber yesterday, the apology was an honest reckoning with our history.
00:07It was a recognition that children were torn from their families and from their culture,
00:12and that what was broken could not be easily put together.
00:15The wounds carried by the stolen generations are so profoundly deep.
00:21But the apology didn't just look to the past, it was a call to action for the future.
00:28A call that was, at its heart, deeply patriotic.
00:33True to our abiding instincts for better, fairer, stronger Australia.
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