Peter RogersStolen Generation & America's Election
January 31st 2008 01:53
January 31, 2008.
* In a pivotal moment in Indigenous appeasement, the highly respected Reconciliation Australia co-chairman, Mick Dodson, has welcomed the decision adopted the other day by the Rudd government to issue an apology to the Stolen Generation. Dodson claimed the decision to say sorry was "monumental", and a huge step in Indigenous affairs.
Yes, of cause the apology is looonng over-due, but the timing of the apology is also good politics. You don’t think the white politicians’ think of this? At least the former national ALP president, Warren Mundine, thinks they do. Mundine says the Federal Government has taken a "massive step forward" by deciding to issue an apology and says it will help the nation come together and further the healing process, but also suggests that in regards to the politics, "it's really going to set the tone for the incoming Rudd Labor Government."
What ever the consequences’ may be - there is absolutely no doubt that an apology is at the forefront of any 'healing process' and is by far the most symbolic moment in Indigenous affairs in this country.
* Meanwhile in the States, the former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, has dropped out of the US Republican presidential race and thrown his support behind Senator John McCain.
It is clearer now than ever before that Giuliani was most certainly 'America's Mayor', but that is where his national leadership credentials ends. McCain, almost unknown and ill respected 12 months ago, is now the front runner for he Republicans. Not that it matters too much - as it's clearly going to be a Democratic election win - with either Clinton (who so far has the most delegates) or Obama taking the title.
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