Article

2007-11-27 Down Under

Rudd pledges quick apology to Aborigines

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred 2007-11-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Paul Keating did the apology thing in his Redfern speech, and that was world class grovelling.
Once is never enough.

Posted by Grunter 2007-11-27 03:10|| 2007-11-27 03:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Aborigines sure were mistreated, but I'm fed up with that constant apologizing we westerners are supposed to HAVE to make to everybody else. This really p*sses me off.
Just for the record, the aboriginal culture is not spotless either, and I don't mean faults induced by a supposed western exploitation, I mean plain old despisable sides, like rampant, traditional, child abuse :
Bad Dreaming Aboriginal Men's Violence Against Women and Children

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-11-27 04:26|| 2007-11-27 04:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Australias prime minister elect Kevin Rudd on Monday pledged his government would make an early ~~groveling~~ formal apology to Aborigines for the stolen generation of indigenous children snatched from their parents.

It would be too much to expect Aborigines to promptly offer a heart-felt "thank you" for raising them out of the stone age and offering them thousands of years of civilization including, to name a few things, the wheel, agriculture, written language, a standard medium of exchange, dentistry, physics, geometry, etc., etc. not to mention Plato, Shakespeare, Mozart, etc. etc.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-11-27 09:33|| 2007-11-27 09:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Class guy Ozland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipvdBnU8F8

Posted by Beavis 2007-11-27 09:48|| 2007-11-27 09:48|| Front Page Top

#5 It will be early in the parliamentary term,

But after I sign Kyoto, remove our troops from Iraq, give the Austrailian Islamic Council a special sharia dispensation and release all illegal immigrants held in Australian facilities.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-11-27 09:48|| 2007-11-27 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Poseur.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-11-27 10:08|| 2007-11-27 10:08|| Front Page Top

23:35 rjschwarz
23:34 Glung McGurque2454
23:30 rjschwarz
23:29 rjschwarz
23:29 rjschwarz
23:21 OldSpook
23:17 OldSpook
23:16 OldSpook
23:06 3dc
23:04 danking70
23:03 Zenster
22:59 rjschwarz
22:56 trailing wife
22:55 rjschwarz
22:54 Zenster
22:54 JosephMendiola
22:49 trailing wife
22:49 Secret Master
22:47 Zenster
22:45 Glung McGurque2454
22:44 KBK
22:41 KBK
22:38 Zenster
22:37 trailing wife