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Sorry Day Breakfast at West End
8am Friday 22 May 2026
104 Hill End Tce, West End
Free community event – all welcome!
Link-Up (Qld)’s 2026 Sorry Day Breakfast event will be held at 8am on Friday 22 May 2026 at Cranbrook Place within Orleigh Park, West End (Brisbane).
Each year, we come together to honour the strength of Stolen Generations survivors and descendants and to show our support for their ongoing healing. Join us for breakfast, guest speakers and live entertainment as we acknowledge the past and advocate for a future built on truth, recognition and justice.
A light, complimentary breakfast will be served from 8am, with official proceedings commencing at 8:30am and concluding at 10am.
We are pleased to announce that this year’s event will feature songs by Kristal West (Piadram, Manbarra and Palawa) and a cultural performance by the Nunukul Yuggera Dancers, alongside MC Bo de la Cruz (Gudjala and Erubian) and guest speaker Brett Nutley (Mununjali and Butchulla) accompanied by Butchella Elder, Aunty Lorraine Woolley.
Brett Nutley is a Stolen Generations survivor with a strong background in community and government, having worked as a caseworker at Link-Up (Qld) and as a Parliamentary Indigenous Liaison Officer at the Queensland Parliament, and he is currently the Indigenous Partnerships and Program Coordinator at Redland City Council. He also has a personal connection to the former Aboriginal Girls Home, West End, where his great grandmother, Lucy Wheeler, was admitted under the Act in 1903 at around 15 years of age.
Unable to attend? A livestream of this event will be available to view at the top of this webpage from 8:30am Friday 22 May 2026. A video recording will also be available upon conclusion.
About Cranbrook Place
Cranbrook Place in Orleigh Park was once the location of the Aboriginal Girls Home at West End, which served as a depot for Aboriginal girls being sent into domestic work.
Each year, we gather here to remember the lives of those who lived in the home and to honour their descendants, many of whom join us annually.
About Sorry Day
Please note: Link-Up (Qld)’s Sorry Day breakfast event is held annually on the Friday before National Sorry Day.
National Sorry Day (also known as the National Day of Healing) is held each year on 26 May and marks the anniversary of the tabling of the Bringing Them Home report in Federal Parliament in 1997. The report documented the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families and called for acknowledgement, apology and reparations. Sorry Day emerged in 1998 as a community-led response to the report’s findings and the initial refusal of governments to apologise. It is observed on the eve of National Reconciliation Week (27 May–3 June) and provides an important opportunity to honour Stolen Generations survivors and reflect on the ongoing journey of truth-telling, healing and justice.
This free community event is presented by Link-Up (Qld) and supported by the Australian Government’s National Indigenous Australians Agency, the Healing Foundation, Brisbane City Council, Knowmore Legal Service, Micah Projects and the Queensland Government through the Celebrating Reconciliation Grants Program.
