WA Treasurer Ben Wyatt shares photo of his late dad in moving Sorry Day tribute

“The enduring pain doesn’t define this mob, it’s the resilience and strength we celebrate.”

Those were the moving words of State Treasurer and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt yesterday, who took to Twitter to share a poignant photograph of himself with his late father, left, in tribute to Sorry Day.

“Sorry Day today,” Mr Wyatt wrote.

“A sombre national memory but one that my old man never let impact his fathering of me and my sister.

“The enduring pain doesn’t define this mob, it’s the resilience and strength we celebrate.”

Sorry Day or the National Day of Healing, is an annual event that has been held in Australia on May 26 since 1998, to remember and commemorate the mistreatment of the country’s indigenous peoples.