Similarly, the successes of some Indigenous people, despite overwhelming odds, does not justify removal of children from their parents or reduce their pain. For the disadvantaged, it requires even more, to overcome chronic disadvantage. Reconciliation isn't about political correctness or appeasing the national conscience. It's about the promotion of those values and universal human rights that distinguish human kind. For World Vision, it's about the Christian Gospel.
Reconciliation is about the fundamental worth of every human being.
It's about equality. It's about justice. It challenges our assumptions about power and rejects our measures of success. It pleads for the restoration and protection of basic human rights. My humanity is reduced by every one of the more than 30,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases, just as it is by our collective failure to ensure a fair go for every Australian, especially those who were here first.