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Saying sorry with a show of hands

31/05/2016

Catering manager Patrick Weber, ANUM Melissa Howell, finance manager Prada Syora, patient services’s Tina Steen, and director of mission James McDonald.

Dandenong’s Pinelodge Clinic showed support for Sorry Day through hundreds of hands.
Caregivers and patients decorated more than 100 hand-shaped cut-outs in diversional therapy sessions and displayed them in front of the Heatherton Road hospital on Thursday 26 May.
The project at the St John of God Health Care site was inspired by the Sea of Hands installed at Parliament House in Canberra in 1997.
It was a physical representation of the Citizen’s Statement on Native Title – a petition the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reference Group (ANTaR) circulated to mobilise non-Indigenous support for native title and reconciliation.
Each carried one signature and the Sea of Hands has since become a symbol of the Reconciliation movement.

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