The document outlines key events on the rough road to reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, including the Bringing Them Home report on the forced removal of indigenous children from their families (the Stolen Generations), the Redfern Speech calling for reconciliation, political debate surrounding apologizing for past wrongs, and an eventual apology being issued in 2007 for the Stolen Generations and civil rights of indigenous peoples.

1. Lesson 8 - The rough road to reconciliation

2. From last lesson
Explain the significance for the civil rights movement of the
Mabo decision

3. Outcomes (What you need to know and be able to do)
•Explain the significance of the Bringing Them Home Report
(the Stolen Generations), and the Apology for the civil
rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
•Analyse the political debate surrounding reconciliation
•Outline the significant events on the path to reconciliation
•Evaluate the methods used by civil rights activists to
achieve change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people

4. The Redfern Speech (1992)

5. Bringing Them Home is the title of the Australian Report
of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families.
The report marked a pivotal moment in the controversy
that has come to be known as the Stolen Generations.
Brining them home (1995)

6. Refusing to say sorry

7. The Apology (2007)