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Down Under
Rudd pledges quick apology to Aborigines
2007-11-27
Australia’s prime minister elect Kevin Rudd on Monday pledged his government would make an early groveling formal apology to Aborigines for the “stolen generation” of indigenous children snatched from their parents. Rudd, 50, who came to power in a general election landslide Saturday, said his would become the first federal administration ever to apologise for the policy. “It will be early in the parliamentary term,” Rudd told reporters in Brisbane after receiving a rock star welcome from screaming school children elated by the centre-left Labor Party leader’s election. “We will frame it in a consultative fashion with communities and that may take some time,” he said two days after sweeping conservative Prime Minister John Howard from power. Howard, like previous Australian leaders, had refused to say sorry to the Aboriginal community for the policy in which children were removed from their families in a bid to force ethnic assimilation between the 1930s and 1970s.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Poseur.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2007-11-27 10:08  

#5  Â“It will be early in the parliamentary term,”

But after I sign Kyoto, remove our troops from Iraq, give the Austrailian Islamic Council a special sharia dispensation and release all illegal immigrants held in Australian facilities.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2007-11-27 09:48  

#4  Class guy Ozland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipvdBnU8F8
Posted by: Beavis   2007-11-27 09:48  

#3  AustraliaÂ’s prime minister elect Kevin Rudd on Monday pledged his government would make an early groveling formal apology to Aborigines for the “stolen generation” of indigenous children snatched from their parents.

It would be too much to expect Aborigines to promptly offer a heart-felt "thank you" for raising them out of the stone age and offering them thousands of years of civilization including, to name a few things, the wheel, agriculture, written language, a standard medium of exchange, dentistry, physics, geometry, etc., etc. not to mention Plato, Shakespeare, Mozart, etc. etc.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-11-27 09:33  

#2  Aborigines sure were mistreated, but I'm fed up with that constant apologizing we westerners are supposed to HAVE to make to everybody else. This really p*sses me off.
Just for the record, the aboriginal culture is not spotless either, and I don't mean faults induced by a supposed western exploitation, I mean plain old despisable sides, like rampant, traditional, child abuse :
Bad Dreaming Aboriginal Men's Violence Against Women and Children
Posted by: anonymous5089   2007-11-27 04:26  

#1  Paul Keating did the apology thing in his Redfern speech, and that was world class grovelling.
Once is never enough.
Posted by: Grunter   2007-11-27 03:10  

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