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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2042 Registered: 05-2005 |
Today I felt very proud to be Australian because of Kevin Rudd's apology to the stolen generations. I've written about it in today's Irish Times, so buy a copy if you're in Ireland, UK or a big European city! I'll email it to anyone elsewhere that wants to read it. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 378 Registered: 07-2006 |
send it this way padraig! i felt so much better about being an australian today too.....it was relievingly anti-climactic, just sort of natural and right. this has been far sweeter than the election win itself. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1042 Registered: 01-2005 |
I would like to see The Black Hills region of South Dakota returned to the Sioux, as that's one of the more glaring treaties that was broken. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2043 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've sent it to your dogmansuede address Joe. Sent it to you also Michael. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2047 Registered: 05-2005 |
My family and I went to the Jabaqui (sp?) Aboriginal exhibition when we were in Cairns last year. Brilliant display, very informative. These performers were a very proud, but humble and knowledgeable bunch of people with a great sense of humour. Cant say I had much interaction with Aborigane citizens, if anything only really saw them at markets etc where they were extremely pleasant.Please mail me the article Padraig. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 332 Registered: 05-2005 |
Concur with Padraig. It feels good to be an Austarlian again when a government does something like yesterday. All the kids were put in the hall to watch it on a big screen. When Rudd finished it was the kids who broke out into applause first! | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 44 Registered: 10-2006 |
...thanks Padraig..I would like the opportunity to read it...cheers | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 155 Registered: 05-2005 |
This was a great moment for Australia and well overdue. Rudd has never been a great orator - but he struck just the right tone here. But how creepy was Brendan Nelson's speech (leader of the opposition for those outside Aus) after Kevin Rudd's? It was a horrible grudging sort of 'apology' which took every opportunity to make excuses for white bureaucrats and other architects of the stolen generation policy. And he took every opportunity to bring up the crimes and misdemeanors of some of the current generation of Aborigines - as if that is an excuse for the genocidal policies of the past. It was clearly a speech aimed at appeasing the racists and reactionaries within the Liberal party and its support base. I was physically nauseated by his performance. If I'd been there I would have turned my back on him like many of those in the public gallery. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2047 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've sent it now lads. Brendan Nelson's speech was so wrong it was unbelievable. As Mark said, he was playing to the Liberals' core support. But that's utterly pointless seeing as that core support has left them out of power everywhere! Every state, territory and the federal parliament are all controlled by Labor. The Liberals control a few councils. Wheelie bin territory. |