exp_err ([info]exp_err) wrote,
@ 2008-02-13 08:17:00
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The Apology
This is a great day.

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[info]fred_bear
2008-02-12 09:18 pm UTC (link)
A very great day, it just saddens me we've had to wait 11 years (and more) for it to happen.

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[info]ataxi
2008-02-12 11:04 pm UTC (link)
I've just returned from the telecast of Rudd's speech on the motion to apologise on the front lawn of Parliament House, and there was a great feeling down there. It really was all the best things about Australia.

And then I got back to work and it was like no one else was even aware it was happening!

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[info]exp_err
2008-02-12 11:05 pm UTC (link)
I didn't go to the lawn, but watched it on TV at work with most of my colleagues.

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[info]lilysea
2008-02-13 08:33 am UTC (link)
I didn't go to the lawn, but watched it on TV at work with most of my colleagues.

Ditto.

It was very moving. I was very proud of Rudd.

...and very angry at Nelson!

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[info]barryrachel
2008-02-13 12:18 am UTC (link)
From Ecuador it is hard to get the feel of what is happening at home. The apology is decades overdue. What worries me is the opinions that I see on yesterdays and todays Yahoo polls. Then I am heartened by what I read of Nelson's reply particularly ``I challenge anyone who thinks Aboriginal people get a good deal to come to any of these communities and tell me you wish you had been born there,'' he said.
Then again I gather some of his mates walked out.
A great day but still some sad reactions.

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[info]capnoblivious
2008-02-13 12:31 am UTC (link)
Nelson's speech was very mixed, rather rambly and came across as fairly self-serving and grudging.

But he said some good things, too.

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