Noddie, tomorrow before kinder we are going to uni to see an important day in history.
What's history, Mummy?
History is when something very important happens that no-one will ever forget. And we'll never forget we saw this day either.
What history is happening tomorrow?
Kevin Rudd is going to apologise to the Aboriginal people. We're going to watch him on a big movie screen with lots of other people.
What's apologise?
He's going to say sorry.
Why is he sorry?
He's sorry because of all the bad things that the Government did to the Aboriginal people in the past.
What bad things?
Just really really bad things that were wrong and shouldn't have happened (you think I'm going to explain the stolen generations to a four year old?
Did Kevin Rudd do the bad things?
No. But you know when we have a fight or something bad happens and everyone says sorry and we all start to feel a bit better and can start to make things better?
Yes....
Well, when Prime Minister Rudd says sorry to the Aboriginal people for all the terrible things that the Government did in the past, we can start to fix things.
Oh. Do I have to be quiet all the time when we're watching the apology?
*Later*
Daddy! Tomorrow we're going to watch Kevin Rudd say sorry so we can all start to fix things! And I'm never going to forget!
There haven't been many times in the last decade when I've felt proud to be Australian. This is a great thing. Today is a great day.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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8 much-appreciated comments:
That's fantastic!
Um, did Prime Minister Rudd ever address the famous earwax incident? :-)
I agree with you.
Sorry seemed to be the hardest word, didn't it?*
It really is a massive day in history and I'm ashamed that so many other politics are coming into it.
Go Kev.
P.S. I still remmeber my mother showing me a man on a screen once and saying "This is a very sad day" It was the day John Lennon was shot.
*Apologies to Elton
Wow. That's brilliant.
Sadly, my limited knowledge of Australia and some of the Aboriginal history is contained in the movie, Rabbit Proof Fence, but it haunts me still.
Thank you for posting this. I will let my daughter know, too.
Yes, we need good days in history like this.
Happy belated Birthday. it looks like it was a good one.
I heard about this on National Public radio today. Maybe you could ship some of your PMs courage up north? We have a huge list of grievances to be settled.
that made me cry.
seriously.
i never understood how saying sorry meant you were currently at fault. if you say noddie has to go to the hospital, i would say, "i'm sorry." BK (before kev), i'd have to think that by saying i'm sorry i was admitting my role in some weird noddie conspiracy. it makes me think that they didn'tknow what sorry meant. they just worried about something else. the playground bullies saying "but but but but... "
kev is eloquent and classy. and sincere.
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