This week the federal government announced more funding would go to encourage school students to travel to Canberra as part of their civics and democracy education, to learn about the nation in which we live.
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When students are here they can walk the halls of Parliament and learn about the systems which support our democracy, and take a moment of reflection at the War Memorial to understand the ultimate sacrifices made to protect it.
But where do they learn of the 60,000 years of history of this land, the cultures, the languages, the stories or this nation's first custodians?
Where do they learn of the policies of hatred that allowed for children to be systemically stolen from their parents and families, torn from their cultures?
While tour buses are likely to drive past the Tent Embassy outside Old Parliament House, visitors to the nation's capital do not have a destination to learn these lessons.
And the survivors of the Stolen Generations do not have a place to heal, to remember, and to have their stories heard.
The Healing Foundation will this week ask the federal government to fund a memorial for the Stolen Generations, a healing centre.
The foundation was started in response to the Bringing Them Home report, which detailed Australia's shameful treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and its lifelong effects. Its chief executive Fiona Peterson says survivors want a permanent place to be heard.
"A National First Nations Memorial, which incorporates a Healing Centre, on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin, would send a strong message to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - and all Australians - that the federal government is serious about reconciliation and righting past wrongs," Ms Peterson said.
"The Healing Foundation proposes that it be a 'living memorial' that salutes the past, the present, and the shared future of all Australians as one."
It's a big dream, and yet it shouldn't be a big ask of the government. Even in a time of tightened budgets, almost $500 million could be found to fund the redevelopment of the War Memorial, a cost justified because there was not enough space to tell all the stories of the nation's history in conflicts.
In that context, how could a proposal for a memorial and healing centre for our First Nations People be refused?
As Mark Kenny said in the Parkes Oration last year: "What does it say about a nation that will spend five or six hundred million dollars expanding the [Australian War Memorial] when the kind of project I'm suggesting here, is not even discussed?
"Australia is a lesser nation, a weaker society, for the denial of proper recognition and meaningful reconciliation with this land's first peoples - the oldest continuing civilisation on Earth."
When government leaders meet with the Healing Foundation next week, they must not say such a proposal is too difficult, or too expensive. As we have learnt, the only obstacles for governments to make progress are the ones they create themselves.
As a nation, we have a long way to go when it comes to reconciliation with Indigenous Australians. The Uluru Statement From the Heart remains a document without action, there is no treaty, no reparations, and Indigenous Australian are still more likely to be in jail, to be sick, to die earlier than their non-Indigenous counterparts.
A building, a centre, will not right all these wrongs. But it is one of many steps that must be taken on the journey to reconciliation.