Interested to know if the same people who demand or want our PM to apologise would also back an apology from the Whitlam/Hawke governments for creating ghettos in our cities by hopelessly flawed immigration policies!

Not from me nor mine. My ancestors came here and had a hard time to make a new life. By apologising you take away the meaning of the effort ,the striving, the overcoming of difficulties simply to make a stupid, useless gesture.
It is an inanity designed to stroke egos, nothing more.

Many white Australians care deeply about the injustices done to our
first nation. Just as I also know that in white Australia, there exists an enduring myth of the "millions" of dollars that the Federal & State governments "pour" into Aboriginal welfare. This is the stuff of political and pub wisdom, full of bigotry, and it is false.

A recent nationwide health review disclosed that Aboriginal health care received 25% less government funding per head of population than health care for whites. For every dollar spent per head under the National Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, only 20 cents were spent per head, on Aboriginal people.

Of-course, this is not enough. Nor is it enough to sign 'sorry books' and join solidarity marches across bridges. Nor is it enough to seek
'reconciliation', a problematic word when used against a background of violent occupation and theft. Only justice and a political will can end Australia's enduring disgrace.

The first step is a treaty, a native bill of rights that overrides the states and guarantees land rights and a proper share of resources.
It means regarding Aborigines as both equals and special. Both Canada and the United States have accorded "first nation" status to Indians, recognising them as people who had prior occupation, sovereignty and governance, and have engaged them in true conversation about renegotiating treaties. While neighbouring New Zealand has enacted land and sea rights for the Maori people.

In Australia the Howard Government spends millions of dollars mounting technical arguments in the courts against the same land and sea rights.

In 2001 there was one significant victory, however. The Northern Territory's mandatory Sentencing Act, which sent Aboriginal children to prison for stealing biscuits and which the UN had described as racist, was repealed shortly after the territory's redneck administration was voted out.

Foxy is now being blatantly dishonest. No one in the NT was sentenced to prison for stealing one biscuit. Where I live it takes upwards of 20 offences or more before any action is considered. It is this kind of dishonesty that makes many scoff at suggestions of an apology.

Dear Runner,

Read what I wrote again, - you may get the message (or not).
I used the word - BISCUITS (plural) not biscuit...
And this reference is not one I made up - but from documented researched facts.

On one hand I believe there should be a formal apology made beacause of all of the unethical behaviour that has been displayed towards the Aboriginal citizns of Australia.

But on the other hand I belive there should also be a appology the government from the some aboriginal people. Before you guys all blow you heads off and start calling me racist I will justify my statement.

With living in a 80% part or full blood area I have seen that some aboriginals work great in sosity, but then there are those few who are not greatful of what they are givin.
For example there was government housing for the low income people and after a month of some aboriginal familys moving in they had managed to run the house so horrbly it was deamed condemd and torn down. What happens next? the government builds more housing and the cycle begins again.