We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

Genocide involves the attempt to achieve the disappearance of a group by whatever means. It does not have to be violent, it could be a combination of policies that would lead to a certain group dying out.

Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

People die because they find living too painful.