National Sorry Day 2020

Today, 26 May is National Sorry Day. It is a day to recognise the grief, suffering and loss suffered by the stolen generations and the mistreatment of Australia’s Indigenous peoples

As a non-indigenous Australian, several things sadden me about today, National Sorry Day.

The first is that very few Australians really know the truth about our history. For example, many people would know about Australia’s so called biggest mass murder which happened in Port Arthur in 1996, where 35 people were killed. How many people know about what happened at Myall Creek in 1838 where at least 28 indigenous men, women and children were massacred? And we only know about this because a plucky Irishman decided to prosecute the perpetrators of this horror and they become the first “white” people to be hanged for killing indigenous people in Australia.

The second is that what happened at Myall Creek is not an isolated incident. If you actually take the time to read the stories and history of the interaction of the “white” people with our indigenous peoples, you will hear story after story of how the “white” society denigrated and mistreated our indigenous peoples. There are so many reasons to say sorry to our indigenous peoples because of the actions and inactions of past non-indigenous Australians.

The third thing I am sad about is that this is just one day. Many non-indigenous people believe that glibly mouthing the Acknowledgement of Country, they are paying respect to our indigenous peoples. I often cringe when I hear the Acknowledgement of Country from a non-indigenous person. In my view, we should be saying sorry for the mistreatment of the Australia’s Indigenous peoples in the past and promise to do better in the future. That way we are saying sorry on more than one day a yea

If you truly want to say sorry to the indigenous people of Australia, go and educate yourself about what they endured and vow that this should never be repeated.

And don’t forget National Reconciliation week starts 27 May

Note the image is a photo of a painting in our personal collection by Jane Oliver, which appears on the front cover of the paperback book “Charles Perkins A Biography”. For those who don’t know, Charles Perkins was a key indigenous person in the 1965 Freedom Ride and the first indigenous person to become a permanent head of a federal government department.

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