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It's Reconciliation Week 2008 and in this edition we take a broad look at the meaning of reconciliation.
Closing the gapAlison Atkinson-Phillips
Yorgum Aboriginal Family Counselling Service is one of the 15 “Success Stories in Indigenous Health” showcased in the recent publication by Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR). Like other service providers across Australia, Yorgum effects acts of reconciliation on a daily basis. Read more... The troubled reconciliation of East TimorMeera Atkinson
East Timor is a new democracy and one of the poorest and smallest of the world’s nations. It's had to establish a new government, rebuild its economy and begin the process of healing its society, following 24 years of occupation and trauma. Read more... Reconciliation of a nationMeera Atkinson
For the decade before the end of Apartheid in 1994, South African Tim Ledgerwood fought against the racial segregation dominating the country, for which he suffered unspeakable consequences. But, he says, “Reconciliation is difficult, and requires sacrifice”. Read more... Putting the pieces togetherThe reconciliation process between an adopted daughter and her biological mother is a difficult one. Mother, Lyn, and daughter, Christine, speak to Penelope Monger. Read more... Living with lessSarah White
Lent Event begins with a dream in the heart of God: to seek and save whatever is lost and to restore whatever is broken. Read more... Travelling lightPeople are often encumbered with emotional baggage. But apparently we can reconcile ourselves to it... and learn to let go. Mardi Lumsden discovers how. Read more... Reconcile yourselfMeera Atkinson
National Reconciliation Week, 27 May – 3 June provides an opportunity for all Australians to reflect on the reconciliation process, what it means, why we need it and how we might participate in it. The theme for National Reconciliation Week 2008 is Reconciliation: it’s all our story. Read more... Broken SunReviewed by Brian Duff
At once substantive and spare, Brad Haynes’ Broken Sun is a quiet, period-set Aussie drama about displacement, international reconciliation and redemption staged around the Cowra Breakout in 1944. Read more...
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