Australia Apologises
Tomorrow the 13th of February 2008, will be a great day in the history of Australia. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is going to apologise formally on behalf of the Australian government to the Aboriginal community. This apology will be for the policies of Stolen Generation which were in place for almost a century from 1869 to 1969.
This is great news, not just for the aborigines of Australia but for every Australian as they shake off the stigma attached to their past and now move on.
Full text of the speech is here.
History being made and I am present here, I feel very lucky.
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2 comments :
"This is great news, not just for the aborigines of Australia but for every Australian as they shake off the stigma attached to their past and now move on."
What stigma? Do you have any understanding of Australian history whatsoever?
Personally, I'm growing increasingly weary of the current racist state of affairs in which assorted non-European minorities are portrayed as the eternal victims of the 'evil' white Anglo-Celtic Australian mainstream.
The apology was specifically for the travails of the stolen generation and that is what Kevin Rudd apologised for. There is no where I talked about any other type of racism. Unless you are guilty of it yourself.
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