ABC News Fri, 27 Aug 1999 9:26 AEST Stolen Generations must be recognised: Dodson The former chairman of the Reconciliation Council, Pat Dodson, says attempting to move forward with reconciliation without acknowledging the Stolen Generations is worthless. Mr Dodson says Parliament's expression of regret for the past treatment of indigenous people is inadequate because it does not mention the policies which removed children from their culture and family. He says the words of regret were motivated by a fear of having to pay compensation. He says in Aboriginal culture, an apology is accompanied by entering into restitution, which is not necessarily financial. "To be genuine, for these words to have any genuineness about them, the Government should be withdrawing their litigation, withdrawing their action and finding a way whereby the restitution could be worked through with the people who've suffered under these policies through the agencies of government," Mr Dodson said. © 1999 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
