“Bringing Them Home” Report

Paul Keating commissioned the “Bringing Them Home” report in 1995, but he left office in 1996 before the report was completed. John Howard eventually became the 25th Prime Minister of Australia on 11 March 1996, and wasted no time in attacking his predecessor Keating’s politics on the issue of multiculturalism and reconciliation with indigenous Australians. So when the “Bringing Them Home” report which his predecessor commissioned was completed in April 1997, he was in office to receive it, and rejected it.