Said the Prime Minister, “We Would Have Stopped Sooner Had They Not Been So Damn Tasty”
The Australian government has announced it will issue its first formal apology to Aboriginal people when parliament resumes next month.Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin said the apology would be the first item of business when the new legislature convened on 13 February.
It is aimed at the “Stolen Generations"—-Aboriginal children taken from their parents to be raised by white families. …
Thousands of Aboriginal children were forcibly taken from their parents and given to white families or institutions to raise between 1915 and 1969.
The policy was aimed at forcing assimilation between Aboriginal and white communities. …
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced plans to apologise after his victory in last year's general elections.
The move is a highly symbolic one marking a definitive break from policies of previous administrations, correspondents say.
Ms Macklin said that the content of the apology had been determined after wide consultation with Aboriginal leaders.
It would be made “on behalf of the Australian government and does not attribute guilt to the current generation of Australian people,” she said in a statement. Said Macklin, “Everyone agrees that's fair, because no one born after '69 participated in the child sacrifices to the Great White God that bestowed power and prosperity on the nation; no one that young is in a position now to know about or participate in the Australian Independence Day celebrations in which leaders drink the blood of Aboriginal innocents stored in government blood banks to preserve the power structure and wealth created by the founding pact.”
Reached for a comment on his forgiveness speech, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he plans to ask the question every white Australian has asked at one time or another: “Was that wrong?” And then, he plans to acknowledge the truth as he understands it, which is simply this: “Had we, Australians, known it was wrong, we never would have let the rest of the world know we were doing it.
“Of course, I'm going to word that differently in the actual speech, but that's the gist of it.”
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posted by Biff Loman at 5:16 PM
2 Comments:
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All I try to do is keep the pissed off anger from dripping all over the page, no mean feat.
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