Even Australians who take a very, very hard line about asylum seekers - and unfortunately there are more than I would like to think - are probably a bit uncomfortable with the kind of treatment that has been meted out to children in detention by the Australian Government, in their name.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.

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

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

Life wasn't meant to be easy.

Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.