'Sorry' day Down Under - 2008

Five years ago, this day,  I was in Canberra - witnessing  a historic event. February 13th 2008 was the day when a newly installed PM , Kevin Rudd, famously said " Sorry" . His Sorry was for the Stolen Generation - Aboriginal Children taken from their families and forcibly assimilated  into White Australia. It was not a "sorry " an apology  to all the aboriginals  for all the crimes committed by colonising whites.  In fact. beyond the  words, nothing really changed.  Rudd's Governmnet continued  John Howard's( the previous PM) policies of grabbing Aboriginal Lands in the name of Protecting  Aboriginal children. 

These are some of the pictures I shot that day. A day of hope for a future that has yet to be seriously  addressed.