The long road home ... : the Going Home Conference, 3-6 October 1994 / editing: Jacqui Katona, Chips Mackinolty

Introduction to the Going Home Conference, which is being organised by the karu Aboriginal Child Care Agency; timeline showing key dates in the Northern Territory history of the Stolen Generations; includes a section on the speakers at the conference and transcripts or excerpts of what they said; includes an overview of conference debate on issues such as access to archival information, compensation, rights to land and social justice; reproduces the final recommendations from the conference covereing 1. Controlling our histories; 2. Compensation and the legal cases; 3. Keeping places; 4. Rights to land; 5. Our future and social justice; 6. The government's proposed Social Justice Package; 7. Post conference document; overview of the High Court litigation Kruger and others vs the Commonwealth; text of a paper referred to Ron Merkel during his address to the conference delegates: "A Paper on legal options for Aborigines 'taken" from their families and their people"; outlines what Northern Territory Stolen Generations Reference Groups are discussion for the future; section on Bringing the Media Back Home discusses how media kits were prepared, but how reporting in the Northern Territory News attacked Aboriginal people.