Vicki Roach's Song 'From Little Things Grow'

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“From Little Things Big Things Grow” is a song written by Paul Kelly in 1993. This song Is about the famous “walk off” of the Gurundji people. The intriguing and meaningful poem “Sorry Day” written by Vicki Roach in 2000 outlines the fact that not all problems can be fix or taken back with a simple sorry.

The powerful poem “Sorry Day” is about the children of the aboriginal family's being taken away from there homes. These children are now know as the “stolen generation” as they were stolen from there own parents and homes to be fostered to non-indigenous homes. This poem also states that just saying sorry on one day doesn't heal the caps and scares left by this horrible event.

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