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Ancient tensions fail to mar apology

Seeded on Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:42 PM EST
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labor, nelson, australia, politics, liberal, apology, rudd, sorry, aborigine
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Dr Nelson spent the first half of his speech apologising for the removal of Aboriginal children, and the second half implicitly suggesting that there should be more of it today.

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Gideon Polya

We were very impressed with PM Rudd;'s outstanding speech - and then utterly disgusted by Dr Nelson's apologia for what he called "well meaning" (!!!) people involved in the forcible removal of about 0.1 million Aboriginal children from their Mothers.

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