It requires recognition and acknowledgment of the deep grief and loss experienced by Australia's Indigenous peoples. It requires an honest acceptance of the facts of our shared history. It requires outspoken and absolute rejection of the irrational, blind prejudice behind the ideas being promoted by the Pauline Hansens of our country. Reconciliation requires understanding that remembrance is something which is necessary and valuable to all peoples. Whether it be the holocaust or Anzac Day or the Indigenous struggle, we know that there is great value to us all in remembrance, in reflection, in recognising the facts and the lessons of history and in understanding what has contributed to the environment in which we now find ourselves.
Reconciliation is in our hands.