On 26 May every year, ceremonies, marches, speeches and presentations are held around the country to commemorate Sorry Day, the day on which Australians express regret for the historical mistreatment of Aboriginal people.
The first Sorry Day was held in 1998, one year after the report 'Bringing them Home' was first tabled in parliament. The report, which resulted from a Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission inquiry, documented the forced removal of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, between 1910 and the 1970s.
The children who were removed have come to be known as the Stolen Generations. In 1992, Prime Minister Paul Keating made a speech in Redfern, which acknowledged for the first time that 'we took the children from their mothers'.
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/05/26/factbox-what-sorry-day
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"There is nothing more; but I want nothing more." Christopher Hitchins
