I KNOW THAT TODAY WE HONOUR OUR BE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THIS LAND THESE BULBOUS CONTINUING CULTURES
IN HUMAN HISTORY .   WE REFLECT ON THEIR PAST MISTREATMENT WE REFLECT IN PARTICULAR ON THE 
MISTREATMENT OF THOSE WHO WERE STOLEN GENERATIONS THIS IS BLEMISH CHAPTER IN OUR NATIONAL HISTORY 
THE TIME HAS NOW COME FOR THE NATION TO TURN A NEW COACH A NEW PAGE IN AUSTRALIA'S HISTORY 
BY RIGHTING THE WRONGS OF THE PAST AND SO MOVING FORWARD WITH CONFIDENCE TO THE FUTURE 
.   WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LAWS AND POLICIES OF SUCCESSIVE HAMAS AND GOVERNMENTS THAT HAVE 
INFLICTED PROFOUND BRIEF SUFFERING AND LOSS ON THESE OUR FELLOW AUSTRALIANS WE APOLOGISE ESPECIALLY 
FOR THE REMOVAL OF ABORIGINAL AND FOREST RED ISLANDER CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES THEY 
COMMUNITIES AND THEIR COUNTRY FOR THE PAIN AND SUFFERING AND PERTH OF THE STOLEN GENERATIONS 
THEIR DESCENDANTS .   AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES LEFT BEHIND WE SAY SORRY .   TO THE MOTHERS 
AND FATHERS THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS FOR THE BREAKING UP WITH FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES 
WE SAY SORRY .   AND FOR THE INDIGNITY AND DEGRADATION BUT INFLICTED ON A PROUD PEOPLE 
AND A PROUD CULTURE WE SAY SORRY WE IN THE PARLIAMENT OF AUSTRALIA RESPECTFULLY REQUESTS 
THAT THIS APOLOGY HE RECEIVED IN THE SPIRIT IN WHICH IT HAS OFFERED AS PART OF THE HEALING 
OF THE NATION FOR THE FUTURE WE TAKE PART RESOLVING THAT THIS NEW PAGE IN THE HISTORY 
OF OUR GREAT CONTINENT CAN NOW BE WRITTEN .   WE TODAY TAKE HIS FIRST STEP BY ACKNOWLEDGING 
THE PAST AN LAYING CLAIM TO A FUTURE THAT EMBRACES ALL AUSTRALIANS A FUTURE WHERE THIS 
PARLIAMENT RESOLVE SAID THE INJUSTICES OF THE PAST NASA NEVER NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN A FUTURE WHERE 
WE HARNESS THE DETERMINATION OF ALL AUSTRALIANS INDIGENOUS AND NON-INDIGENOUS BUT DOUBTS 
THAT LIES BETWEEN HOURS AND LIFE EXPECTANCY EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENT AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY 
A FUTURE WHERE WE EMBRACE THE POSSIBILITY OF NEW SOLUTIONS TO ENDURING PROBLEMS WHERE 
ARE ALL APPROACHES HAVE FAILED THE FUTURE BASED ON MUTUAL RESPECT MUTUAL RESOLVE AND 
MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY A FUTURE WHERE ALL AUSTRALIANS WHATEVER THEIR ORIGIN IS A TRULY EQUAL 
PARTNERS WITH EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND WITH AN EQUAL STAKE IN SHAPING THE NEXT CHAPTER IN THE 
HISTORY OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY AUSTRALIA S MR SPEAKER .   THERE COMES A TIME IN THE HISTORY 
OF NATIONS WHEN THE PEOPLE'S LUST BECOME FULLY RECONCILED TO THE PAST IF THEY'RE TO 
GO FORWARD WITH CONFIDENCE TO EMBRACE THE FUTURE FOUNDATION AUSTRALIA HAS REACHED SUCH 
A TIME AND THAT IS WHY THE PARLIAMENT IS TODAY YOU ASSEMBLE TO DEAL WITH THIS UNFINISHED 
BUSINESS OF THE NATION TO REMOVE A GREAT STAIN FROM THE NATION'S SOUL AND NO TRUE SPIRIT OF 
RECONCILIATION TO OPEN UP A NEW CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THIS GREAT LAND IN AUSTRALIA MR SPEAKER 
LAST YEAR I MADE A COMMITMENT TO THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE THAT IF WE FORM THE NEXT GOVERNMENT 
AT THE COMMONWEALTH REWARD IN PARLIAMENT SAY SORRY TO THE STOLEN GENERATIONS MR SPEAKER 
TODAY I'LL HONOUR THAT COMMITMENT .   I SAID WE WOULD DO SO EARLY IN THE LIFE OF THE NEW 
PARLIAMENT MR SPEAKER A GAME TODAY BY ARMOUR THAT COMMITMENT BY DOING SO AT THE COMMENCEMENT 
OF THIS THE FORTY SECOND PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH BECAUSE THE TIME HAS COME WELL 
AND TRULY COME FOR ALL PEOPLES OF OUR GREAT COUNTRY FOR ALL CITIZENS OF OUR GREAT COMMONWEALTH 
FOR ALL AUSTRALIANS THOSE WHO ARE INDIGENOUS AND THOSE WHO ARE NOT TO COME TOGETHER TO 
RECONCILE AND TO GET THE BILL THAT A NEW FUTURE FOR OUR NATION