Apology to Aborigines by Kevin Rudd

An edited version of the speech given by the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, to the 'Stolen Generations' of Aboriginal Australians on 13 Feb, 2008. Recorded at a public broadcast in Brisbane. The editing is clunky because my camera could only record 1 min bursts, and my memory card maxed out. Plus Rudd's speech was nearly 30 mins long and was repetitive.

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News & Politics

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• aborigines
• sorry
• apology
• australia
• kevin
• rudd

[nerdburger28]

I don't think that this apology is meant to make people feel guilty about past wrongs, it's about recognition of what's happened and working together to help to mend the hurts of the past.

[portantwas]

Exactly

[Supremepizzaxxx]

@InvaderZimFan101 Amen invaderzimfan, i totally agree

[DezoCorka]

I wanted to call you "a comrade". Before clicking on your profile, I didn't know, how close I 'll be to the truth.

[DezoCorka]

It was simply a paradise on Earth. I wonder, why we whites actually invented modern civilization. I would say that all white Australians must be dreaming about living among those happy, healthy Abos with the average life length of 100 years or so.

[fdoric6]

Could you possibly be any more stupid and ignorant? The Abo's were a lot better off before Whiteman came here, no disease, no hunger, no poverty and no exploitation.

What has western civilization done? It has made a handful of parasites rich at the expense of the vast majority. 80% of the world's population lives on less than $10 a day, as tens of millions are losing their jobs and their homes and are forced into poverty.

Its in idiots like you—that fascists get their recruits

[fdoric6]

Racist loser, bigot and ignoramus. No you are not saying what we are all thinking, you are regurtitaing the bile of backward philistines and Neanderthals

That you are a hypocritical Christian is the icing on the cake. Lets start burning the heretics at the stake. Fucking imbecile

[fdoric6]

Rudd says sorry as he intensifies the NT intervention dragooning Aboriginals into forced slave labour camps for the mining and tourism industry. As for Sorry....the Aboriginals never asked for it, it was a suggestion of a report initiated by the Howard government, along with another 53 recommendations all of which have been ignored because they required the spending of money for health and education etc. Liberal and Labor are all vile low life--the paid lackeys of the financial aristocracy

[krazymage88]

Finaly somone who knows what there talking about these people have exploited this country and have almost sucked it dry of any dignity it once had remember it was white people that gave you law,order,homes,clothes,food you can buy without the bother of hunting, water to drink during droughts rather than dying of thirst, roads, cars and trains you no longer have to walk huge distances over harsh terrain. most people are narrow minded on this subject invaderzimfan101 just has an open mind about it

[InvaderZimFan101]

Theyve been bitching for years, all we did was take them from squatting in their own filth and place them in civilized christian households. a race that claims to have been around for 40 000 years youd think they would be a super inteligent race right? WRONG!!!! they haddent even invented the fucking wheel, all they invented was a hollow stick, a bent stick, a sharp stick and AIDS.be4 you bitch about this comment aparently ONLY WHITE PEOPLE ARE RACIST and im only saying what we are all thinking.

[InvaderZimFan101]

anyone that actually lives in Australia would know what the abo's are like. if you are an American ect you see them as poor liitle coons that dont get a fair go, look at it from our p.o.v and their filthy little dole bludging scum, the unwiped assholes of society. their parents sit around a ring of VB, rape their young and then teach them how to be illiterate, and burn government provided furnature from a government provided house.