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By Howard Glenn, published 8/2/2008The most encouraging part of the debate is that it has the prospect of re-kindling a bi-partisan approach to Aboriginal issues.
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Please don't take offence Foz, but that statement comes from ignorance of what it really going on. Individual Australians are not providing the apology. The apology is being provided by the Australian Government in recognition of policies of past governments. No individual person is being asked to take personal responsibility and if anyone thinks that this is the case, they are wrong.
I have been amazed at some of the negative reactions to the apology.
My mother was taken from her family at the age of six for no other reason than she was deemed a 'half-caste' which meant she was a perfect candidate for assimilation. She grew up in an environment where she had no contact with her family and was told on a daily basis how disgusting Aboriginal people were.
We can't change the past, but we can make sure that the children of the Stolen Generation are no longer told that what happened to them was for their own good.