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.