在1910-70 年代之間，總共有十萬名澳洲原住民族孩童被迫就讀住宿學校，他們不止面對肢體、心裡的霸淩，甚至於還遭到性侵害，給原住民族社會帶來嚴重的傷害。澳洲政府從1990 年代展開新的原住民族政策，在1991 年成立「原住民族和解委員會」，致力和解。本文嘗試理解委員會成立的背景、運作的方式、以及調查的結果，同時探討政治上的角力、以及論述上的爭辯。

In the 1970s-80s, one hundred thousand Indigenous children were forcefully taken away from their parents by the Australian government to be educated at the boarding schools. There were physically and psychologically abused or even sexually assaulted, which had caused serious damages to the Indigenous society. Embarking on a new Indigenous policy in the 1990s, the government established the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation in order to settle the relations between the state and the Indigenous Peoples. We shall look into the background, operation, and inquires of the Council and explore how politics was intersected as well as what competing discourses were employed.