The Healing Foundation have produced a webinar for the National Sorry Day 2025. This webinar is a time to reflect, learn and stand in solidarity with Stolen Generation Survivors. Each year, 26 May marks National Sorry Day, acknowledging the Stolen Generations — Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families between the mid-1800s and 1980s.
This year marks 28 years since the Bringing them home report was tabled in Parliament — a powerful truth-telling moment that called for justice. The Healing Foundation report released earlier this year – Are you waiting for us to die? The unfinished business of Bringing them home – found only 6% of the Bringing them home report recommendations have been clearly implemented Many of the survivors who shared their stories to the Bringing them home inquiry are no longer with us, because it was a whole generation ago.
Those who remain are ageing and still waiting for real action. This year the message is clear: We cannot wait another generation to act on the priority Bringing them home recommendations in 2025. A special thanks goes to our esteemed guests, Stolen Generations survivors Ian Hamm (Yorta Yorta) and Aunty Yvonne Mills (Kokatha/Mirning) from The Healing Foundation’s Stolen Generations Reference Group, along with The Healing Foundation’s CEO, Shannan Dodson (Yawuru), for their valuable insights. Together let’s honour truth, support healing, and commit to meaningful change.