"Bringing Them Home" Report

The complete title of the report is "Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families". It was 700-page and included personal accounts of those affected by the genocidal policy.

It was commissioned by the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Paul Keating, on 11 May 1995 - with the intention to possibly embrace the recommendations suggested by the report. Mr Keating, however, left office in 1996. The report was still underway.

Mr Keating was succeeded by Mr John Howard, an egoistic man notorious for his persistent refusal to apologise to the Indigenous Australians, for not wanting to bow down to a "black armband view of history". The report was received by Mr Howard's government on 26 May 1997.

Mr Howard's government rejected the 54 recommendations of the long-awaited report.