Desipis ...

Why are some people more deserving of an apology than others, simply based on the colour of their skin?

This is becoming infantile - Study what white people did to aborigines over time ... and continue to do.. It has nothing to do with the colour of their skin... why do you keep bringing colour into it... Are you showing signs of latent racism?

Insisting on an apology isn't "the blame game" it is the right and Christian thing to do.... Are you a Christian? How do you increase equality when they are so disadvantaged... I want total equality... but I don't think you realise what that means. Have you had your lands taken from you by anyone? Solve that inequality for to ignore it is to fail!

Apologising will only re-inforce the victim mentality - what rot it will start the healiing! Not apologising proves they are victims! And we can't apologise!

The apology is a starting point... simple but true... that is why Howard said sorry in the debate.... He nearly choked on it... but the word sorry got out of his lips...

Poverty - Again whiteman has given them the wrong things... we made those choices and they didn't want houses and cars .. we thought they'd be good for them...

Education - Teach aboriginal culture better in our schools... expand the curriculum to be more inclusive ... Have our kids go on aboriginal camps... live the culture respect the culture and create jobs in the bush.

Health - And why are they so skeptical? You seem to generalise the remote aboriginals problems with all societies problems... just plain simplistic!

I apologise to every person in Australia who has been put at some disadvantage by an uncaring and uncompassionate Australia... I am sorry that we have done it to you!

Your turn! Ha!

Hooray to Liz the Yank who says it so right. The bleating heart cry buckets brigade who form the Anti White Aboriginal Industry would do anything to keep the status quo.
Otherwise why would they not have helped educate and train aboriginal youth years ago to take their proper place in Australian society? The so called "stolen generation" were the lucky ones, they at least got some education and training.
I hope the recent 'blitz' on the squalid camps does some good, it is about time this country stood up for the rights ,not of the activists, but the women and children.

How refreshing to see racists coming out and openly identifying themselves. As a Septic, you'd expect Liz to be full of faeces. Mickijo, what's your excuse? Get out on the ugly side of the bed this morning?

Opinionated2: "Study what white people did to aborigines over time..."

You're the one bringing race and colour into it.

"Insisting on an apology isn't "the blame game""

An apology is about accepting the blame for wrong doing. Insisting on an apology is insisting that someone is to blame. Insisting on an apology IS the blame game.

Poverty - If aboriginal communities don't need what we can actually offer how can we be to blame for their poverty? There is plenty of land where they can live their traditional lifestyles if they so choose.

Education - How is educating mainstream Australians going to help educate uneducated people in remote communities?

Health - Most Australians who don't accept conventional medicine don't turn around and complain to the government about their health.

"I apologise to every person in Australia who has been put at some disadvantage by an uncaring and uncompassionate Australia... I am sorry that we have done it to you!"

Wow, accepting responsibility for something that's not your fault. I'm sure their lives are better already.

“If successful, this would be a small, incremental step towards reconciliation because "unfinished business" between black and white Australia is far from over.”

I would suggest this displays the racist attitude of the author, who perceives there is still “unfinished business” between mainstream Australia and some folk some of whose ancestors happened to arrive here at some time before Captain Cook and the first fleet.

I would suggest inclusion within “mainstream Australia” is best observed by respect for the set of common laws we are all expected to observe, without excuse or exception because or ethnicity.

I know if I were to abuse children in my care, I would lose custody of them.

I know if I were to behave like a drunken lout or drug inebriated itinerant, I would find the police cautioning me and likely locking me up for my own safety.

I know to expect strings to be attached to any hand outs I might receive from government.

I know if I to want to find self-respect and self-worth, it starts by finding self accountability.

So, let us get it straight, there is no “unfinished business”.

It was resolved when this country was colonized by Britain, enshrined later in Federation and finally “finished” when “universal suffrage” was extended to all adults living within the Australian Commonwealth.

Lizz-the-Yank, “Keeping fractional Aborigines completely cut off from the mainstream economy and supporting a guilt industry is poisonous to Australia.”

I must agree.

However, do not be dissuaded from posting. Trolls like CJ Morgan do their feeble best to irritate but I found a modest application of tinea powder usually clears him up.

This man goes to the doctor with a bird on his head.
The doctor says:"what's the matter with you"?
The bird says:"there's something stuck to my rrrrr's"!

Crouge ducky; unfortunately I suspect that not even a flame thrower would clear YOU up.

It all depends on the way one looks at it, doesn't it?