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Knowing when to say 'sorry' : Comments
By Russell Marks, published 11/2/2008The overarching aim of a national apology is to set the nation on a path of healing.
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We had people claiming to be of Aboriginal descent who then went, so to say, on the band wagon claiming to be of the so-called “stolen generation” only later to be discovered that in fact their parent had handed this person (as a child) over. Therefore there is a grave danger that the term “stolen generation” is bias and misused and abused and does not reflect at all what really the apology is about.
Why indeed should the Federal Government somehow express an apology as to Aboriginals but not of half cast or others who were forcefully removed?
I do not belong to any political party and so my views are expressed as a constitutionalist and not seeking to reflect the views of any political party.
A misconceived/ill-conceived apology is not going to resolve anything but rather is likely to create more resentment!
END PART 4- CONTINUE FROM Monday, 11 February 2008 3:06:11 PM
The concentration on the so-called “STOLEN GENERATION” in my view is an absurdity as we would have done better to deal about the murdering, etc, of Aboriginals since British settlement.
While “anomie” and “CJ Morgan” may be more interested to push their own wheelbarrow, so to say, then bothering about the slaughtering of Aboriginals since British settlement, perhaps because “compensation” may not be an issue as to those who were actually murdered, I for one rather be open minded