Sky News host Chris Kenny says Indigenous singer and songwriter Archie Roach’s life story is a classic example of the “cruelty of past policies and also how recently they were in place and the amount of pain that they caused”.
Indigenous singer Archie Roach’s life story is a classic example of the ‘cruelty of past policies’
“Roach was raised in western Victoria but was taken from his parents as a toddler – a trauma that was translated into his breakthrough song many decades later,” Mr Kenny said. “Raised in Melbourne by a non-Aboriginal foster family, Archie Roach got the shock news as a 15-year-old that he had family, and his parents had recently died.Mr Kenny said on Thursday night, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews issued an apology.
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