Healing the Hurt
2005
A NATIONAL Day of Healing will be launched on 26 May — a day that, under the previous title of Sorry Day, has
focused on healing the hurt caused by the removal, as children, of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
from their families. Under its new name, it aims to focus on the relationship between Australia’s first peoples
and the wider community.
This is not to downplay the healing needed among the ‘stolen generations’. A survey of Aboriginal child health
conducted by the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research showed serious emotional and behavioural
difficulties among the children of those who were removed. But, in part, their healing depends on healing the
continuing impact of non-Indigenous settlement on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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