I’m very pleased to be here today at the launch of Australia’s celebration of the 1993 International Year of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. It will be a year of great significance for Australia. It comes at a time when we’ve committed ourselves to succeeding in the test which so far we’ve always failed. Because in truth, we can not confidently say that we’ve succeeded if we’ve not managed to extend opportunity and care, dignity and hope to the Indigenous people of Australia, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Aboriginal elders gathered in Sydney to mark the 20th anniversary of Paul Keating's Redfern speech, considered one of the most important addresses in Australia's history.

Speaking to a crowd at Redfern Park on December 10, 1992, the then-prime minister acknowledged the impact of European settlement on Indigenous Australians.

The speech put reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians firmly on the political agenda, and some say it paved the way for the formal apology to Indigenous Australians.

To the stolen generations, I say the following: as Prime Minister of Australia,
I am sorry.
On behalf of the government of Australia, I am sorry.
On behalf of the parliament of Australia, I am sorry.
I offer you this apology without qualification.

The Wik people, from Western Cape York Peninsula, were the first recorded Aboriginal people in Australia to have contact with Europeans. The history between the Wik people and Europeans goes back to as early as 1605, when the Dutch ship, Duyfken sailed into the west coast of Cape York Peninsula and arrived at Cape Keerweer, South of modern-day, Aurukun. Captain William Janszoon of the ship had the plan to make a settlement, but this objective failed as war broke out and the Duyfken ship soon departed.

This SBS articles discusses the Wik 10-point plan and what impact this has had, it appears that Aboriginal communities' connection to land still continues to be - quite literally - railroaded by the economic interests of mining companies.
The Wik 10 point plan is detailed in this article.

“The Wik decision provided our country with a potential basis for co-existence between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The Federal Government’s Ten Point Plan destroyed that potential and produced the Native Title Amendment Bill 1997 (Cth) (’the Bill’). The Bill rejects a fundamental and dynamic proposition contained in Wik: that where pastoral rights are inconsistent with co-existing native title rights, they prevail over them but do not extinguish the underlying native title. The Bill represents a concentrated drive towards the permanent extinguishment of native title. Whichever way you look at these proposals it is impossible to find a just and fair framework which seeks to balance Australian property rights. You see bias. You see gross infringements of the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. You see “bucket-loads of extinguishment”.

The Wik decision provides an opportunity for Australians to take up the notion of co-existing titles; a
basis for developing ways to combine efficiency and certainty with genuine respect for the property
rights of all Australians.
Instead, the Government has used Wik as an excuse to produce a Bill which completely restructures the way in which native title is accommodated within the Australian legal system, in order to serve the purposes of vested interest groups.

After a 16-year legal battle and 30-year political struggle, members of the Wik Way clan in Cape York have finally been granted access to their traditional lands.
Federal Court Justice Andrew Greenwood formally recognised the claim of the Wik and Wik Way people to 1200sqkm of land covered by Rio Tinto's bauxite mining lease in a ceremony at Aurukun yesterday.

BRISBANE, Jan 26 AAP - An Aboriginal leader critical of the federal government's stand on native title rights and its refusal to apologise for the "stolen generation" has been recognised in the Australia Day honours.
Dr Michael (Mick) Dodson has been appointed a member (AM) of the Order of Australia.

Mick Dodson, in full Michael James Dodson, (born April 10, 1950, Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia), Australian Aboriginal political activist and scholar who was named the 2009 Australian of the Year in recognition of his work to help better the lives of the country’s indigenous peoples and to promote reconciliation between Australia’s indigenous and nonindigenous residents.