{"id":58,"date":"2008-02-13T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philbu.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/13\/australia-apologies-to-indigenous-peoples"},"modified":"2016-12-07T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T11:24:08","slug":"australia-apologies-to-indigenous-peoples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/australia-apologies-to-indigenous-peoples\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia apologies to Indigenous Peoples"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the <\/span>New York Times<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd opened a new chapter in Australia\u2019s tortured relations with its indigenous peoples on Wednesday with a comprehensive and moving apology for past wrongs and a call for bipartisan action to improve the lives of Australia\u2019s Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Parliament is today here assembled to deal with this unfinished business of the nation, to remove a great stain from the nation\u2019s soul, and in a true spirit of reconciliation to open a new chapter in the history of this great land, Australia,\u201d Mr. Rudd told Parliament.
\n(…)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the <\/span>National Indigenous Times<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

They jumped, whooped and hollered on the lawns of Parliament in Canberra following the apology to the Stolen Generations read by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd this morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

The long overdue apology was the one of the first issues of business for the 42nd Parliament of Australia.<\/p>\n

The declaration itself read concisely and made its message clear, yet as the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s voice wore on with more personal anecdotes, the mood of the 5,000 strong crowd turned from one of quiet celebration to one of outright sorrow.<\/p>\n

Tears were hard to hold back as members of the Stolen Generations that weren\u2019t inside Parliament House openly wept during the speech that will be remembered for many years to come.
\n(…)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rudd’s speech on ABC<\/span><\/a>.
\nThe full apology in The <\/a>Sidney Morning Herald<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the New York Times: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd opened a new chapter in Australia\u2019s tortured relations with its indigenous peoples on Wednesday with a comprehensive and moving apology for past wrongs and a call for bipartisan action to improve the lives of Australia\u2019s Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. \u201cThe Parliament is today here assembled… Continue reading Australia apologies to Indigenous Peoples<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,6],"tags":[181,156],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-indigenous","tag-australia","tag-indigenous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}