Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down.

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

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.

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