Reconciliation Week and the reconciliation movement has been going for quite a while now. It really started with two landmark events in the 1990s. Click image to zoom Tap image to zoom Number one was the Mabo decision of the High Court which basically said, “Aboriginal people were here first”, “native title exists”, and “Aboriginal connection exists”. On top of that, a few years later, the Bringing Them Home report of 1997, which was about the stealing of children, added to the momentum.