Stolen Generation Sorry Day
The Stolen Generation

National Sorry Day - Australia - 26th May 2025

We remember and acknowledge the mistreatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed from their families and communities, which we now know as the Stolen Generation Sorry Day. The stolen generation Sorry Day is a day to acknowledge the strength of Stolen Generations Survivors and reflect on how we can all share in the healing process.

On 13 February 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a formal apology to ​Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, particularly to the Stolen Generations whose lives had been blighted by past government policies of forced child removal and assimilation.

Stolen Generation Sorry Day is a day to acknowledge the strength of Stolen Generations Survivors and reflect on how we can all play a part in the healing process for our people and nation. While this date carries great significance for the Stolen Generations and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, it is also commemorated by Australians right around the country.

The first National Sorry Day was held on 26 May 1998,  one year after the Bringing Them Home report was tabled in Parliament. The Bringing Them Home report is a result of a Government Inquiry into the past policies which caused children to be removed from their families and communities in the 20th century.

Today, twenty-three years after the Bringing Them Home report and twelve years since the National Apology, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are still 10.6 times more likely than non-Indigenous children to be removed from their families.

We cannot begin to fix the problems of the present without accepting the truth of our history. Sorry Day asks us to acknowledge the Stolen Generations, and in doing so, reminds us that historical injustice is still an ongoing source of intergenerational trauma for Aboriginal and Torres Islander families, communities, and peoples.

Be Apart Of Reconciliation in 2025

At Aboriginal Cultural Immersions we have delivered our Aboriginal Incursions and culture ceremony to National Sorry Day events across Australia to help understanding and in the healing and reconciliation.

Now more than ever we invite you to book our ceremony and/or performance and enjoy our aboriginal elders, traditional owners, aboriginal performers and art workshop faciliatators. We come to your property or venue and share the our oldest living culture on earth.

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Early Learning Centres and Pre-Schoolers
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World Class Australian Aboriginal Dance

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Kaurna Country

The Adelaide Plains is located in Kaurna Country and the Peramangk people are the custodians of the Mount Barker region in the Adelaide hills.

Yugambeh, Turrbal and Yuggera

Brisbane is home to the Turrbal and Yuggera peoples while the Gold Coast traditional owners ar the Yugambeh people. Kabi Kabi peoples and the Jinibara peoples belong to the Sunshine Coast.

Eora and Yuin Nations

The Eora Nation are the custodians of the Greater Sydney region with the Gadigal people custodians of Sydney city and central Sydney Harbour. Dhurag people oversee Western Sydney while The Yuin people are caretakers along the south coast of NSW.

Wurundjeri Country

The Wurundjeri people are custodians of the Melbourne. The Wadawurrung live in the regions near Melbourne down to Geelong along the peninsula. We have connection to mobs across Victoria.

Acknowledgement

Aboriginal Cultural Immersions acknowledges all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across this continent and surrounding Islands.

We pay homage to the Custodians of these traditional lands upon which we work, live and play.

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