Reconciliation without apology cannot possibly be reconciliation in any
meaningful sense of the word. If the Reconciliation Council does leave an
apology out of the document because it has bowed to Prime Ministerial
pressure then the document, the council and the whole process will be
compromised. I certainly intend to send an email or letter to them
expressing my opinion. While I am often of the view that a gently gently
approach is the best way to proceed, this is not one of those cases. If
John Howard wants to be the odd man out on this, then he has to be visibly
left out there on his own. If he doesn't think that Reconciliation is the
right model, then he has to be forced to state that, not have the whole
issue fudged as being one of gradualism - another step on the way.
Graham Y
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> Jim wrote:
>
> >Yup, only three years ago the Mayor of the shire in which the Bindjareb
> >Massacre was perpetrated suggested that it was not a massacre, and if it
> was
> >not a battle, perhaps we could describe it as an altercation. Yeah!
> Right!
> >Just like like the Second World Altercation?
> >
> >
> >God, or someone, save us from these academics and their abuse of basic
> Anglo-
> >Saxon. Please read some Chaucer Gustav Nossel.
>
>
> Absolutely, Jim. Apparently one of the other words 'Howard the Historian'
> doesn't like and wants removed from any document of reconciliation is
> 'colonised'. This despite the fact that Britain always described its
> conquests as colonies and the whole Empire was run from the Colonial
Office.
> Perhaps instead of colonised he would prefer 'adoption'. Might even make
a
> good substitute for 'stolen', as in the Adopted Generation? Who says
> language doesn't matter.
>
> Tim
>
>
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