Most community groups go further than this. Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation believes the essential elements of reconciliation, including land issues, real equality of opportunity and self-determination for Indigenous Australians, must be gathered into a partnership document fortified through Constitutional amendment. Some activists go much further calling for the recognition of Aboriginal Customary law within the Australian Legal System, establishment of regional indigenous governance arrangements, on top of monetary compensation for dispossession. Most of the definitions of reconciliation include two elements - reparation and forgiveness. In so much as Social Justice is a third element, it probably falls under reparation.
Reconciliation can also refer to both the process and the realization.
But while Reconciliation carries, as it must, the notion of forgiveness, it is an unattainable goal for government. It is impossible to legislate what people will think, feel or believe. That is why our society separates Church and State - because there are realms that are impregnable to legislation. Again it is difficult to say. We know that he is prepared to acknowledge prior occupation of the land and accepts the need for a document, though not a treaty, of reconciliation.