Formal apology is well received

St Luke’s is committed to working alongside indigenous-controlled organisations and Aboriginal communities to give true meaning to saying sorry.

Ten years ago, St Luke’s made a formal statement of apology to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for the role our service and its predecessors played in past practices that damaged them and their communities. We were part of a welfare system that cooperated with or failed to speak out against practices that forcibly removed Aboriginal children and young people from their families, their communities and their heritage.

It is heartening that as a nation we can now make a symbolic gesture like saying sorry; a gesture that establishes a base from which we can now work as a nation to redress indigenous disadvantage. We can now build on strengths to work for hope, for justice and towards reconciliation between Aboriginal Australians and non-Aboriginal Australians.

David Pugh
CEO St Luke’s Anglicare
info@stlukes.org.a

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