Larissa Behrendt’s After the Apology—released in all major centres nationally this week—is one of the most important social justice films this country has produced. Its most powerful distillation is that the systematic high-rate removal of Indigenous Australian children from their families is not over—children are actually being removed at a much higher rate since Kevin Rudd’s 2007 Apology that formally acknowledged the Stolen Generations. This is not in our past, it is in our present and future.

‘Sorry means you don’t do it again’.