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Wow....risole91 said:im so far behind in PE.
i dont know how to edit my myspace,
and i have so much work to do tonight
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We're actually going to be watching it at school. Our principal today explained to everybody what was going to be happening on Wednesday. We're going into the hall basically and we're going to watch the live broadcast.davidbarnes said:Perhaps Feb 13th shodu leb made a public holiday so everyone cna stay hoem and watch Kevin Rudd LIVE apologize to the Aboriginal people. I'm all for an apology, so long as their is no compensation!!!!
I bet it will be live on Channel Nine and Channel Seven, as well as Sky News of course.bassistx said:it's scheduled to start 9am on SBS Television, ABC Television, and ABC radio.
lol I was saying if we couldn't find it, our last resort would be sky news footage.. The poor quality stuff off YouTube.davidbarnes said:I bet it will be live on Channel Nine and Channel Seven, as well as Sky News of course.
They've been waiting for like 100 years for this. I think it's kind of disrespectful to let it go so easily. I'm really proud of Mr. Rudd for having the courage to do it. Mr. Howard apologized and then took it back, saying it was about something else. He said it doesn't stop at sorry, they want compensation, etc. The Aborignal Alliance did say that sorry wasn't enough, but it's a good step.Jachie said:so i guess i'm the only one here who finds this 'apology' to be an absolute load of crock?
cool.
I think that it's more of a symbolic gesture to the Aborigines, a white institution admitting that they were wrong. I mean, of course they can't extract an apology from prime ministers in the 40s, 60s etc, but if the Aborigines who have campaigned for so long hold this so dear to them, then that's okay by me. I'm not exactly sure what the wording entails, but I'm sure that Rudd will try to apologise for the wrongdoings of governments gone by - who were jackasses enough to leave it to future generations... If there's one issue crossed off the Tent Embassy's "To Do" list, then I'm for it. Kevin Rudd seems like a genuine man anyway, even for a politician.Jachie said:agreed with cal 100% (whoa, first time for everything hey!)
Saying sorry is an empty symbolic gesture that is absolutely meaningless. It means nothing to the people the apology is directed to, it means nothing to the people the apology is supposedly spoken on behalf of. I'm not sorry. I didn't do anything. What happened was awful and I'm pretty sure everyone can recognise that, but there's a difference between acknowledging regrettable actions undertaken by people who have NOTHING to do with us today, and actually apologising for them. This generation is not responsible for past wrong-doings, we are in no position to apologise for anything and we shouldn't be expected to.