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Indigenous Australians are calling for the federal government to implement recommendations from the 'Bringing Them Home' report 29 years after it was first tabled in parliament. Today is National Sorry Day, a day to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who were forcibly taken from their families between the mid-1800s and the 1980s known as the 'Stolen Generation'.

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00:01I reflect today probably with sadness and frustration, but also hope that it's the
00:1029th anniversary of the Bring Them Home report on National Sorry Day today. Next year will
00:16be 30 years, an entire generation. And I'm hopeful that with the launch of our action
00:22plan today, that really outlines some tangible things that governments and others can do
00:28to support Stolen Generation survivors and their descendants, that we can start to see
00:32some real change, some addressing of those recommendations and to ensure that survivors,
00:38you know, 29 years ago who really put their hearts and their openness on the line, and
00:44that just doesn't go down in vain. There is only 6% of the recommendations that have actually
00:49been implemented fully. We heard from survivors today and at other times just talking about
00:56how, you know, that hope that they had 29 years ago has been slowly chipped away with
01:02this inaction. Those actions, there's still so many remaining. There's a lot more work
01:08to be done, but I am encouraged by the fact that we have had some good conversations about
01:14this action plan. But it is time to move. We can't wait another generation. We've already
01:20lost too many survivors and it's just not good enough that there hasn't been enough movement.
01:26What that looks like is around health, ageing, social and emotional wellbeing, access to records,
01:33making sure that there's equitable compensation or redress, with Queensland now being the only
01:38jurisdiction to not provide any compensation. Also ensuring that there's research and data
01:44to ensure that the services that are being delivered to survivors are adequate and meeting
01:49their needs. But also education is another really big one. We need to understand this
01:55ongoing impact of removal. It's not something that is in history. We still have survivors that
02:03are living through that trauma every day and they just want to see action in their lifetime.
02:09And so we really hope that this action plan will give people very clear answers about where
02:16to next as we head to 30 years.
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