Stolen Generations Apology (Qld)

On 26 May, 1999, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie issued an apology in Parliament on behalf of the House to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Queensland on behalf of all Queenslanders for forcible separation from their families. It came just days before the Forde Inquiry into Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions Report was presented to the government, and three months before a much longer apology was issued to all children harmed in Queensland’s children’s institutions.