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I have to say I'm a little ambivalent about the whole thing - which I'm not too happy about, but it's the truth.
Maybe in time we'll be able to look back and see it as the positive turning point we're all hoping for. I guess so much has been said and so much time effort and money spent already - and we're still facing massive social and cultural problems that seem to be as far from being resolved as ever.
But as a positive gesture it can only be a good thing. Now we just need some positive action to follow.
Maybe in time we'll be able to look back and see it as the positive turning point we're all hoping for. I guess so much has been said and so much time effort and money spent already - and we're still facing massive social and cultural problems that seem to be as far from being resolved as ever.
But as a positive gesture it can only be a good thing. Now we just need some positive action to follow.
Not all of the children that were removed from their families were happy with their family, and in a large portion of cases, they were removed to good families and treated well.
And positive action? There has been a lot of positive action in recent times.
To the people that were removed from a loving family and unwittingly tortured, we say sorry.
And positive action? There has been a lot of positive action in recent times.
To the people that were removed from a loving family and unwittingly tortured, we say sorry.
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Unwittingly tortured.Nick-W wrote:Not all of the children that were removed from their families were happy with their family, and in a large portion of cases, they were removed to good families and treated well.
And positive action? There has been a lot of positive action in recent times.
To the people that were removed from a loving family and unwittingly tortured, we say sorry.
You just won't see it or read it or anything will you. The removal of "half-caste" children was a deliberate attempt at social engineering based on racial grounds and encouraged by the prejudices of the times. Bite down on it hard. Yeah, that's what it tastes like.
You refuse to see the motive, the historical result, the damage. You defend the utterly indefensible on the spurious grounds that lots of white Australians in the mid 20th century thought it was OK. It wasn't OK then and it bloody well isn't OK now, which is why a lot of Australians of massively varied backgrounds really want to tackle it now, not excuse it.
Just f**ken own it the same way you probably own Anzac Day. And try your best not just to say sorry but to feel it.
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Nick Carroll wrote:Unwittingly tortured.Nick-W wrote:Not all of the children that were removed from their families were happy with their family, and in a large portion of cases, they were removed to good families and treated well.
And positive action? There has been a lot of positive action in recent times.
To the people that were removed from a loving family and unwittingly tortured, we say sorry.
You just won't see it or read it or anything will you. The removal of "half-caste" children was a deliberate attempt at social engineering based on racial grounds and encouraged by the prejudices of the times. Bite down on it hard. Yeah, that's what it tastes like.
You refuse to see the motive, the historical result, the damage. You defend the utterly indefensible on the spurious grounds that lots of white Australians in the mid 20th century thought it was OK. It wasn't OK then and it bloody well isn't OK now, which is why a lot of Australians of massively varied backgrounds really want to tackle it now, not excuse it.
Just f**ken own it the same way you probably own Anzac Day. And try your best not just to say sorry but to feel it.
Not that big on compliments just quietly but well put NC.
Well done to Rudd, as a symbolic guesture it is huge and well overdue. I have no problem with a Sorry at all.
Lets hope people see the tone in which it is intended. We have much to be proud of, but also a lot to be less so.
Unfortunatley over here in WA, there seems to be more people anti-sorry than over east.
Lets hope people see the tone in which it is intended. We have much to be proud of, but also a lot to be less so.
Unfortunatley over here in WA, there seems to be more people anti-sorry than over east.
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Go Nick!
Thought Rudd did really well, especially with his call for bipartisan action to tackle the ongoing problems in Aboriginal affairs.
So significant that the apology happened on the first full day of a new parliament and new government. This, and signing the Kyoto Protocol, has made the change of government worthwhile, whatever happens over the next three years.
Australia is already feeling like a whole new country now that Howard has gone and his legacy is being dismantled.
Go Nick!
Thought Rudd did really well, especially with his call for bipartisan action to tackle the ongoing problems in Aboriginal affairs.
So significant that the apology happened on the first full day of a new parliament and new government. This, and signing the Kyoto Protocol, has made the change of government worthwhile, whatever happens over the next three years.
Australia is already feeling like a whole new country now that Howard has gone and his legacy is being dismantled.
Not sure if my kids got to got to see it at school today but I hope they did.Spoon wrote:My wife works at Killarney High and if you can believe it they actually had parents ringing yesterday threatening to keep their kids at home if the school was planning anything to do with today :?
Every kid should have seen it. Its history.
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