People die because they find living too painful.

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

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.

Life wasn't meant to be easy.

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

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

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