Links - Comment - Apology Native Title and Reconciliation Page Sea of Hands Katoomba - Design by Bill Hardy (Gundungarra) TREATY NOW!! "We want our ceremonies. We want our language. We want our stories to be told to our children. We want to sing. We want to dance....(because) we want to talk to our land, and the land to talk to us" Galarrwuy Yunipingu, the chairman of the Northern Land Council at the time of this comment. Page last updated July 2006

Apology
We support an official and formal apology to the Stolen Generation of Aboriginal people, and to Aboriginal people in general. We urge the Prime Minister of Australia to offer a formal apology on behalf of all Australian people to Indigenous Australians, something which no prime minister has thus far been willing to do. We believe that any real reconciliation between indigenious and non-indigenous Australians can only proceed on this basis and that to hedge our bets due to fears of claims for compensation is moral cowardice. Reparation must be offered and that must include land rights and adequate funding to allow forms of redevelopment of indigenous land along the lines that traditional owners see as appropriate. There is a price to pay and it must be paid for our spiritual and cultural well being.

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Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
A coalition of community based groups of non-indigenous Australians of all ethnic origins and political persuasions. ANTaR is committed to seeking full and fair reconciliation with Indigenous Australians based on recognition of their prior habitation of this country and their rights to Native Title on that basis. ANTaR has organised he "Sea of Hands" touring exhibition in support of native title and reconciliation.

Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation
A body of government appointed non-Indigenous and Indigenous members responsible for advancing the cause of reconciliation between non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians.

National Native Title Tribunal Reconciliation and Social Justice Library
Resources about Native Title (and Social Justice) issues and links to other resources.

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