Australia Says Sorry

Today was an important day in our country's history:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/

Here is an opinion piece. Be warned that some of the comments made are distressingly anti-apology.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...13/2161244.htm

For my own, partisan part, the absence of the former Prime Minister John Howard was a disgrace. He is a relic, like Bush and Blair. Having said that I am proud of Kevin Rudd and the new government. It's time for both indigenous and non-indigenous Australians to create one great country that includes us all.

I heard that on the news this morning. I thought it was amazing and great. Looks like Rudd is going to be a good guy for Australia.

Thanks for those links, Fp. It takes guts to apologise for anything, and this really does look like a positive step towards uniting your country. Kevin Rudd seems a sound guy.

Perhaps I should point out that I didn't post this just to be partisan about Kevin Rudd. The point remains however that it took a Labor government to make the gesture, symbolic though it may be. All the former living Prime Ministers, Labor and Liberal, attended, with the glaring exception of J.W. Howard.