News Release - 13 August 2001
Moving Forward: Achieving reparations for the stolen generations
Press Conference
Date:
14 August 2001
Venue: Macquarie
Room, Southern Cross Hotel Group,
111 Goulburn Street, SYDNEY
Time: 11.30
am
Dr Bill Jonas,
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner,
and
Andrea Durbach, Director Public Interest Advocacy Centre
Will join with International guests:
Mr Mike DeGagne,
Executive Director, Aboriginal Healing Foundation(Canada)
Professor Taunya Banks, School of Law University of Marylands
(USA) and
Ms Nathalie Des Rosiers, President, Law Commission of Canada
To discuss the Moving Forward Conference for the stolen generations to be held on 15 & 16 August 2001 in Sydney. Moving forward - Achieving reparations for the stolen generations will bring together Indigenous peoples of Australia and non-Indigenous Australians to explore models for providing reparations to members of the stolen generations.
The conference is being hosted by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC).
Information about the conference and the list of national and international speakers is on the Moving forward website at http://www.humanrights.gov.au/movingforward
