Trudy Bray wrote: > Hawke calls for formal > apology to stolen generation > Tuesday 20 April, 1999 (11:15pm AEST) > > Former prime minister, Bob Hawke, has used an address > at Wollongong University to again call on the Howard > Government to make a formal apology to the stolen > generations. > > In a passionate speech about the life and work of Sir > Richard Kirby, Mr Hawke referred to the stolen > generations as a stain on Australia's collective history. > > He says the only way non-Aboriginal Australians can say > sorry in a full and proper sense is by the Prime Minister, > through and with the support of the Commonwealth > Parliament. > > "Sorry is a small word - but genuinely expressed it could > have a huge influence on moving towards a real > reconciliation between us," Mr Hawke said. > As a person born in a Nazi Camp, with a father-in-law who had half his face shot away by a Japanese sniper at Eora Creek in New Guinea, I observe: 1. Germany has apologised and paid reparations for its acts in WWII. 2. Japan has done neither. 3. Our PM is in good company.... jim ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
