Almost three decades on from a landmark report on the Stolen Generations, advocates say much more needs to be done to support survivors and acknowledge the trauma they endured.
Tuesday is National Sorry Day, held annually on May 26 to remember and honour the many thousands of Indigenous children forcibly removed from their families from 1910 to 1970.
On February 13, 2008, then-prime minister Kevin Rudd made a formal apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, particularly the Stolen Generations.
The apology followed the landmark 1997 Bringing Them Home report - the findings of an inquiry instigated by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in 1995.
Shannan Dodson, chief executive of The Healing Foundation which supports Stolen Generations survivors, said 29 years after the report was tabled in federal parliament, only six per cent of its 83 recommendations had been implemented.
