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__**What is being said** __

The recognition and inclusion of our nations Indigenous people is a topic that is always being discussed, especially over the recent years that have seen Australia apologise to its Indigenous people for their mistreatment and exclusion for so many years. Below are some examples of what we do hear about, what is being said that the public are allowed to, or are purposefully made to hear. Many more discussions go on behind closed doors in regards to policy making and taking new ground on Indigenous issues. Some of our country's leaders are stepping forward and daring to take a view of Australia as a nation with a rich Indigenous heritage, but as the public we will perhaps never hear the full story of the efforts that are actually being made to support the futures of Indigenous people, their history and culture. We can only hope that those with power consider the repercussions of their decision not to act, as equally as those of when they do. School curriculums have been hot topics in recent years and the new national history curriculum is no exception. A prominent Aboriginal leader has labelled it “clumsy and insulting."
 * **Aboriginal History lost in new school curriculum** //by Tony Eastley, ABC News September 2011//

PRIVATE school teachers have joined calls to revise the new history curriculum to include more about Aboriginal people and the Stolen Generations, saying you cannot give children a "watered-down" version of the past.
 * **Call to teach Aboriginal and Stolen Generation history** by Milanda Rout, The Australian 26 September 2011

THE national history curriculum fails to adequately teach students about the Stolen Generation and should be revised before it is signed off by state and federal education ministers next month.
 * ****Greens call for history revision on Stolen Generation** **by Milanda Rout The Australian

Because nobody has had the patience really to sit down on their ground and talk with community after community. This is the only way it can be done. Different communities need ownership of the programs that are put in place to help them
 * **We have lost our way** //Malcolm Fraser with Robyn Eckersley The Conversation 10 October 2011//