We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.