Indigenous Australia: The Journey Home March

10 years later Prime Minister Kevin Rudd:

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On Wednesday the 13th February the new Australian Prime Minister issued an apology to the Indigenous people of Australia on behalf of the government. This apology has been a long day coming and marks the beginning of a new chapter in Australian history.

As a white English man I am an oddity because I know more of that history than most white Australians and certainly more than most of my fellow countrymen. We were responsible for murdering, kidnapping and exploiting the indigenous population on a scale that is truly shocking to anyone who reads about it. Far worse for me was to find that when I was in Australia between 1997 and 2000 that this dreadful history of abuse was not something confined to dusty pages on a library shelf. Even at the end of the last century the abuse continued in fact, in deed and in contravention of any sense of human decency.

Kevin Rudd is to be applauded. Human Rights TV does not normally seek to make personal comment on items in its archives. I ask forgiveness for making this a personal exception. Jack Adams 200208

 

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