Australians across the country have marked National Sorry Day. It has been a day of commemorations expressing regret for the historical mistreatment of First Nations people.
It's been two decades since Australia's first National Sorry Day but only one decade since the government actually said the word.
Over those many years and gatherings, for some there are things that don't change.
National Sorry Day marks the beginning of National Reconciliation week.
This year's campaign is about learning history and growing together as a nation.
This ad campaign is part of a push to prompt people to ask themselves what they do or don't know about Australia's shared history.
[[ANIMATION]]
[[MAN: "We have the tastiest coat of arms in the world and..."
WOMAN: "There's also a bit that you don't know we've got the longest surviving culture on earth."
MAN 2: "Even older than the Greeks - 60,000 years on average."]]
Aboriginal elder Rita Wright was taken away aged two, forced to work on a farm and live in the chicken coop.
Ms Wright says it's been a very long road to forgiveness.
[["We still don't know how to say mum. We called the people in the home mum and dad."]]
But she counts herself lucky as she found her birth mother years later.
[["She took me downtown and showed me off, saying my daughter's come home. my daughter's come home. It was a beautiful feeling, finally knowing I belong somewhere."]]
First Nations Grandmothers have been meeting with government this week to address the high rates of indigenous children in care and custody.
Grandmother Against Removal, Christine Kngwarraye ((Noir-ray)) Palmer has told SBS it's devastating.
[[PALMER]]
[["It's increasing and that's the most damaging part of just looking at it on paper. I was so appalled talking to a young lady whose child had been adopted and that's where the government is heading to adopt our children to non-Indigenous people."]]
Across Parramatta in Sydney's West, flags have been flown at half-mast.
The council says it's a show of mourning for the wrongs done to the Stolen Generation and a mark of respect.
But for many in the community here, including Community elder Greg Simms, respect goes beyond an apology.
