Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.
People die because they find living too painful.
Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down.
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.