A Great Day In Australia's History

The text of the speech prime minister Kevin Rudd intends to deliver at the 'Sorry' ceremony at Parliament House this morning :

“Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history. We reflect on their past mistreatment. We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who were Stolen Generations – this blemished chapter in our nation’s history.

The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia’s history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future.

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.

We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.

To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry. And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry.

We the Parliament of Australia respectfully request that this apology be received in the spirit in which it is offered as part of the healing of the nation. For the future we take heart; resolving that this new page in the history of our great continent can now be written.

We today take this first step by acknowledging the past and laying claim to a future that embraces all Australians. A future where this Parliament resolves that the injustices of the past must never, never happen again. A future where we harness the determination of all Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to close the gap that lies between us in life expectancy, educational achievement and economic opportunity. A future where we embrace the possibility of new solutions to enduring problems where old approaches have failed. A future based on mutual respect, mutual resolve and mutual responsibility. A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter in the history of this great country, Australia.”

So that's it. That's the 'Sorry' statement so very long in the making.

Was that really so hard? Seriously, a decade of fuss and debate and arguments and bile to get to a point where the elected government can make a statement like that?

It's a bit more flowery and wide-ranging than most Australians would have expected, or wanted, but it states clearly what the majority of Australians have long accepted as truth.

How 'Sorry' Could Lead To Civil War In Australia....If You're One Of Bolt's Brethren

Australia's King Of Conspiracy, Andrew Bolt, has been hyping his brethren for weeks now about tomorrow's official 'Sorry' to the Aboriginal people for the forced removal of their children over six decades.

Andrew Bolt sees a dark conspiracy about an official 'Sorry', as he doesn't believe there are enough "genuinely stolen" Aborigines, if any at all, still alive worthy of being apologised to.

'Sorry' Day, according to Bolt, is "celebrating a lie."

Feel the empathy.

Bolt seems genuinely, and rantingly, disturbed at the idea of Aborigines receiving any kind of apology at all. Ever. For anything. It's all a dark Evil Lefty-Greenie-Commie conspiracy to make white Australians feel ashamed of how white Australians treated Aboriginals..

Today, you can almost hear Bolt's brain snapping a few more strands of sanity as he gags on the suggestion that schools fly an Aboriginal flag on Wednesday morning, and allow students to watch the ceremony on TV :

The NSW Government is stealing children - or at least their minds...

Stealing minds, eh Mr Bolt? Will you the spokesman for the "stolen minds" generation?

Bolt handily gives the impression that schools will be forced by Ruddler to fly Aboriginal flags and children will be herded at gunpoint before TV screens for an indoctrination session. He doesn't bother to tell his legion any involvement by public schools in 'Sorry' ceremonies is voluntary and students don't have to take part if they don't want to.

Unlike the millions of Australian children, over generations, who were forced to sing 'God Save The Queen' at school, under the threat of a solid canning, and were taught that the best thing that ever happened to the world was the British empire, no questions or dissent allowed.

Bolt is building himself a whole stable of conspiracies now - climate change is all hype, global warming is a way to make people pay more taxes, Evil Lefties want American and Australian soldiers to die in Iraq, Kevin Rudd is probably Satan, the economy will decay solely thanks to Lefty-Green-Aboriginal Socialism, Barack Obama will only become US president because he is black - all of which his dedicated followers soak up as hungrily as any newbie 9/11 Truther.

Bolt's Truthers now believe that saying 'Sorry,' flying an Aboriginal flag at a school for one day and encouraging students to watch an historical event and parlimentary ceremony will destroy the nation as we know it and lead to an Aboriginal Vs Whitey civil war, backed by Evil Lefties, Green Nazis and Communists.

Of course, Bolt himself doesn't bother to discourage his brethren from believing they may soon be at war with Aborigines in the streets of their hometowns.

The ranting, the paranoia, the gnashing goes on and on :

"Rudd and co., the activists etc. wont be happy until Australia has a civil war under way I
feel. And our own modern day Che Guevara to boot."

"Stephen Hawke interviewed by the Hills Gazette in WA calls the aboriginies who attacked settlers in the nations early days “guerilla fighters” so its not difficult to see what is in the wind."

"Aboriginies in Adelaide have threatened to “rise up” if the government attempts to remove their aboriginal “embassy” as it is relocated to a more visible site. Now that Rudd and co. have gained government all bets are off "

"All decent Australians should fly the national flag upside down as a sign of distress..."

"...how much of the billions in “compensation” may be perhaps used to continue the
guerilla fight against mainstream Australians which seems to be the prevailing trend at the moment as “Sorry” and “Guilt of the Nation” day fast approaches."

"Parents should consider taking legal action against the moronic schools who will participate in this circus - this is nothing more than brain washing..."

"Can our Australia, after enduring 3 years of this terrifying form of manipulation and indoctrination, actually be salvaged or will it be “game over?”

"They are trying to breed conservatism out and may very well succeed. What brainwashing doesn’t achieve, censorship will."

"The indoctrination is already well in place. I tried to reason with my two teenage daughters about this issue last night and I was howled down with a litany of “stolen generation” propaganda."

"It looks like a scene out of the movie 1984. The next step in this process is to set up the thought police."

"...neo-pagan aboriginal worship."

"While driving to work this morning listening to the ABC’s Radio Communist I mean National..."

"History is being rewritten in front of our eyes. No different to Trotsky and others being airbrushed out of later Soviet pictures."

"...this is how nazi germany started....goebels couldn’t have done any better."

"I have always wondered how on earth Hitler swept people into marching, singing and following him blindly. Now I can see it happening in front of my eyes. I also can see how moderate, thinking people have no weapon against mass-hysteria."

"Just as in Nazi Germany where Hitler’s zealots attacked any who warned them of the error of their ways & the negative consequences upon their own nation. Is it not interesting how these brain dead individuals attack the very people who despair & care about where our nation is heading."

Yes, saying 'Sorry' to the Aboriginal people is a lot like the formation of Nazi Germany. Who can't see that? Nurse, medication.

Perhaps Bolt is looking forward to the dark conspiracies he has seeded amongst his followers actually coming true?

Then, at least, he could claim he was right, on something.

Party Colleagues Want Brendan Nelson Gone From Leadership Within A Year

Nelson "Insincere, Fake....A Nobody"

Opposition leader Brendan Nelson must be a haunted man. Particularly after reading this article.

Nelson's obvious disgust at having to back Labor on the long overdue end to the stalling and conspiracy-mongering of saying 'Sorry' to Aborigines made him look a truly pathetic man when he had to front the media and declare he had changed his mind on one of the most controversial issues of the John Howard era in only a handful of weeks.

Brendan Nelson - November, 2007 :

"...we have no responsibility to apologise or take ownership for what was done by earlier generations," he said.

The 'Sorry' problem for the Liberals is intense, and it keeps detonating again and again under their feet, like unexploded daisy cutter mines had been scattered throughout their offices by the Labor Party.

Malcolm Turnbull is said to have lost his shot at the leadership of the Liberal Party because he supported a national 'Sorry' statement and official apology for numerous past crimes against the Aboriginal People, and because he did not consult enough, or often enough, with the partyroom before he went to the media and started making declarations.

Nelson supposedly did the right thing, by "consulting with the partyroom" before he announced that numerous Liberals who believe in the Andrew Bolt "unstolen generation" conspiracy would keep their mouths shut and give their backing to something they truly didn't believe in.

A number of senior Liberals find the word "stolen", as in "stolen generation", utterly repellent.

Why, they wonder, can't we simply call them "The Saved Generation."?

Malcolm Turnbull recently got an insight into how some senior Liberals regard him when he was told he was being "too fucking sensitive" by the Opposition senate leader, Nick Minchin, in front of colleagues :

The row started outside of the party room on Thursday, after Senator Minchin went on ABC radio and confirmed Mr Turnbull lost the leadership because his public support for an apology to the stolen generation suggested he would not consult the partyroom.

After Mr Turnbull told him the comments were "unhelpful'' because the whole leadership debate was settling down, Senator Minchin is understood to have yelled at his frontbench colleague, declaring he was "too f..king sensitive'' as he walked away.

Brendan Nelson's leadership of the Liberal Party is stripping away the layers of Howard-era conservatism. Now they're 'Sorry', they're against killing whales, they like Green things, they don't like WorkChoices.

What other old beliefs, clinging on like barnacles, will Liberal conservatives have to betray or cast aside to re-sell themselves to under 40s Australians as "The Ones Who Really Care. Really."

Whatever kind of Liberal Party emerges at the other end of its Renovation Rescue-like attempt to revive a staid room by only changing the curtains, it probably won't have Brendan Nelson as its leader :

"He's a nobody, who is insincere and fake,'' one Liberal said.

"If he was here by the end of the year I would be very surprised. (Turnbull) is clearly the preferred person.''

Sometimes it's not so nice to know what your colleagues really think of you. Particularly if you're Brendan Nelson.