I've just watched the apology from the Prime Minister and the speech that he made in support of the apology and I've got to say I'm very impressed.
There was just a simple sincere recognition of historical wrongs, an apology to the people wronged and a resolve to make things better. I think theologically it's called repentance.
There were no weasel words, no qualifications, no excuses.
Let's hope that the Government can now start to turn words into actions and bring those awful statistics of life expectancy, health and education into line with the rest of the population.
When Mr Rudd was elected our Prime Minister, I wasn't sure about him being the right guy for the top job. After watching most of his apology speech this morning, I'm beginning to let my mind be changed - he may well be Prime Minister "for such a time as this". I
ReplyDeleteI think he's going to make up for many of John Howard's failures. But of course, this government will have its own problems- being made up of people.As always, we need to pray for those in authority.
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