We call for National and State Apologies for the inhumane treatment of tens of thousands of people, labeled as being mentally retarded and intellectually disabled, who where forced to endure lives of intolerable hardship and immense suffering in State and Federal Government funded Institutions. Tens of thousands of people were denied basic human rights and a duty of care. Many died alone, many suffered in silence and many were abandoned. We want our Governments to APOLOGISE, to say SORRY to the people affected by this incarceration and address immediately, and in earnest, today's further injustices that continue to deny people, and their carers, a right to participate equally, productively, fairly and with dignity in this our beloved country Australia.