26th of May each year is the National Sorry Day. During the National Reconciliation Week 27th May to 03rd June, more activities are organised and Australian Indigenous history are being taught so Australians know more about its past in order to reconcile to heal the past wrongdoing and to go forward to the future.
Paramatta is a town in Sydney's West has displayed half mast flags to show respect and show mourning to those stolen generation.
Greg Simms is an Indigenous elder from the community said that " I don't want sorry, I just want people to acknowledge what has really happened in this country."
He also suggested that we must educate people about this.
"We're going to learn, we're not going to go backwards, we're going to go forwards. Because all of those people, those white people here today they're part of us too. We don't say black fellows over there, white people over here. Because we're all the one people, I don't care what anyone says," Greg Simms elaborated.
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Patrick Dodson, a leader in many Australian Indigenous organisation and now a senator in Australian parliament house, is one of manay Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has been fighting to have a voice in Australian parliament. He told ABC that:
"If you start getting critical and stroppy government, they're going to get rid of you and that's what's happened in the past. So the leaders have come to the view that we need to have something in the consitution that at least requires the parliament to consider putting in a place a voice to the parliament."
Jeremy Donovan, an Australian Indigenous musician also agree that teaching people about Australian past 200 years of Australian being colonized, the wounds the damage and the suffering of Australian native people is a good start.
"Being able to provide education to other Australians in a non-confronting way. In a way that basically says that when I talk about the massacres, when I talk about the stolen generation, I don't want you to feel guilty but I want you to understand that the pain that we carry in our heart is almost too big for us to carry by ourselves, that we need all Australians to stop pretending or to stop fleecing over or to stop using terms like 'get over it, it happened a long time ago'. To actually say you know what? This burden is part of our history and we need to carry this with our First Australian brothers and sisters," said Donovan.#
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