Here is the full text of the apology given by PM Kevin Rudd on behalf of the Australian government to the Aboriginals. The you tube video of him giving the speech is at http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=AtfMIJqQwPk<\/p>\n
Text of PM Rudd’s ‘sorry’ address
\nFebruary 13, 2008 – 4:08PM<\/p>\n
I move:<\/p>\n
That today we honour the indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest
\ncontinuing cultures in human history.<\/p>\n
We reflect on their past mistreatment.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who were stolen
\ngenerations – this blemished chapter in our nation’s history.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in
\nAustralia’s history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving
\nforward with confidence to the future.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and
\ngovernments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on
\nthese our fellow Australians.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres
\nStrait Islander children from their families, their communities and
\ntheir country.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
For the pain, suffering and hurt of these stolen generations, their
\ndescendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the
\nbreaking up of families and communities, we say sorry.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud
\npeople and a proud culture, we say sorry.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We the Parliament of Australia respectfully request that this apology
\nbe received in the spirit in which it is offered as part of the
\nhealing of the nation.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
For the future we take heart; resolving that this new page in the
\nhistory of our great continent can now be written.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We today take this first step by acknowledging the past and laying
\nclaim to a future that embraces all Australians.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A future where this parliament resolves that the injustices of the
\npast must never, never happen again.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A future where we harness the determination of all Australians,
\nindigenous and non-indigenous, to close the gap that lies between us
\nin life expectancy, educational achievement and economic opportunity.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A future where we embrace the possibility of new solutions to
\nenduring problems where old approaches have failed.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A future based on mutual respect, mutual resolve and mutual
\nresponsibility.
\nA future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly
\nequal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in
\nshaping the next chapter in the history of this great country,
\nAustralia.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must
\nbecome fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with
\nconfidence to embrace their future.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Our nation, Australia, has reached such a time.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
That is why the Parliament is today here assembled: to deal with this
\nunfinished business of the nation, to remove a great stain from the
\nnations soul and, in a true spirit of reconciliation, to open a new
\nchapter in the history of this great land, Australia.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Last year I made a commitment to the Australian people that if we
\nformed the next government of the Commonwealth we would in Parliament
\nsay sorry to the stolen generations.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Today I honour that commitment.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I said we would do so early in the life of the new Parliament.
\nAgain, today I honour that commitment by doing so at the commencement
\nof this the 42nd parliament of the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of
\nour great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for
\nall Australians – those who are indigenous and those who are not – to
\ncome together to reconcile and together build a new future for our
\nnation.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Some have asked, Why apologise?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Let me begin to answer by telling the Parliament just a little of one
\nperson’s story – an elegant, eloquent and wonderful woman in her 80s,
\nfull of life, full of funny stories, despite what has happened in her
\nlife’s journey, a woman who has travelled a long way to be with us
\ntoday, a member of the stolen generation who shared some of her story
\nwith me when
\nI called around to see her just a few days ago.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Nanna Nungala Fejo, as she prefers to be called, was born in the late
\n1920s..<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
She remembers her earliest childhood days living with her family and
\nher community in a bush camp just outside Tennant Creek.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
She remembers the love and the warmth and the kinship of those days
\nlong ago, including traditional dancing around the camp fire at night.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
She loved the dancing. She remembers once getting into strife when,
\nas a four-year-old girl, she insisted on dancing with the male tribal
\nelders rather than just sitting and watching the men, as the girls
\nwere supposed to do.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But then, sometime around 1932, when she was about four, she
\nremembers the coming of the welfare men.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Her family had feared that day and had dug holes in the creek bank
\nwhere the children could run and hide.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
What they had not expected was that the white welfare men did not
\ncome alone. They brought a truck, two white men and an Aboriginal
\nstockman on horseback cracking his stockwhip.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The kids were found; they ran for their mothers, screaming, but they
\ncould not get away. They were herded and piled onto the back of the
\ntruck.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Tears flowing, her mum tried clinging to the sides of the truck as
\nher children were taken away to the Bungalow in Alice, all in the
\nname of protection..<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A few years later, government policy changed. Now the children would
\nbe handed over to the missions to be cared for by the churches. But
\nwhich church would care for them?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The kids were simply told to line up in three lines. Nanna Fejo and
\nher sister stood in the middle line, her older brother and cousin on
\nher left. Those on the left were told that they had become Catholics,
\nthose in the middle Methodists and those on the right Church of England.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
That is how the complex questions of post-reformation theology were
\nresolved in the Australian outback in the 1930s. It was as crude as
\nthat.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
She and her sister were sent to a Methodist mission on Goulburn
\nIsland and then Croker Island. Her Catholic brother was sent to work
\nat a cattle station and her cousin to a Catholic mission.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Nanna Fejo’s family had been broken up for a second time. She stayed
\nat the mission until after the war, when she was allowed to leave for
\na prearranged job as a domestic in Darwin. She was 16. Nanna Fejo
\nnever saw her mum again.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
After she left the mission, her brother let her know that her mum had
\ndied years before, a broken woman fretting for the children that had
\nliterally been ripped away from her.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I asked Nanna Fejo what she would have me say today about her story.
\nShe thought for a few moments then said that what I should say today
\nwas that ”all mothers are important”.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And she added: ”Families – keeping them together is very important.
\nIt’s a good thing that you are surrounded by love and that love is
\npassed down the generations. That’s what gives you happiness.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
As I left, later on, Nanna Fejo took one of my staff aside, wanting
\nto make sure that I was not too hard on the Aboriginal stockman who
\nhad hunted those kids down all those years ago.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The stockman had found her again decades later, this time himself to
\nsay, sorry. And remarkably, extraordinarily, she had forgiven him.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Nanna Fejo’s is just one story. There are thousands, tens of
\nthousands of them: stories of forced separation of Aboriginal and
\nTorres Strait Islander children from their mums and dads over the
\nbetter part of a century.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Some of these stories are graphically told in Bringing Them Home, the
\nreport commissioned in 1995 by Prime Minister Keating and received in
\n1997 by Prime Minister Howard.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
There is something terribly primal about these firsthand accounts.
\nThe pain is searing; it screams from the pages. The hurt, the
\nhumiliation, the degradation and the sheer brutality of the act of
\nphysically separating a mother from her children is a deep assault on
\nour senses and on our most elemental humanity.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
These stories cry out to be heard; they cry out for an apology.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Instead, from the nation’s Parliament there has been a stony,
\nstubborn and deafening silence for more than a decade; a view that
\nsomehow we, the Parliament, should suspend our most basic instincts
\nof what is right and what is wrong; a view that, instead, we should
\nlook for any pretext to push this great wrong to one side, to leave
\nit languishing with the
\nhistorians, the academics and the cultural warriors, as if the stolen
\ngenerations are little more than an interesting sociological phenomenon.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But the stolen generations are not intellectual curiosities. They are
\nhuman beings, human beings who have been damaged deeply by the
\ndecisions of parliaments and governments. But, as of today, the time
\nfor denial, the time for delay, has at last come to an end.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The nation is demanding of its political leadership to take us forward.
\nDecency, human decency, universal human decency, demands that the
\nnation now step forward to right an historical wrong. That is what we
\nare doing in this place today.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But should there still be doubts as to why we must now act, let the
\nParliament reflect for a moment on the following facts: that, between
\n1910 and 1970, between 10 and 30% of indigenous children were
\nforcibly taken from their mothers and fathers; that, as a result, up
\nto 50,000 children were forcibly taken from their families; that this
\nwas the product
\nof the deliberate, calculated policies of the state as reflected in
\nthe explicit powers given to them under statute; that this policy was
\ntaken to such extremes by some in administrative authority that the
\nforced extractions of children of so-called mixed lineage were seen
\nas part of a broader policy of dealing with the problem of the
\nAboriginal population.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
One of the most notorious examples of this approach was from the
\nNorthern Territory Protector of Natives, who stated: ”Generally by
\nthe fifth and invariably by the sixth generation, all native
\ncharacteristics of the Australian Aborigine are eradicated. The
\nproblem of our half-castes” – to quote the protector – ”will
\nquickly be eliminated by the complete disappearance of the black
\nrace, and the swift submergence of their progeny in the white”.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The Western Australian Protector of Natives expressed not dissimilar
\nviews, expounding them at length in Canberra in 1937 at the first
\nnational conference on indigenous affairs that brought together the
\nCommonwealth and state protectors of natives.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
These are uncomfortable things to be brought out into the light. They
\nare not pleasant. They are profoundly disturbing.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But we must acknowledge these facts if we are to deal once and for
\nall with the argument that the policy of generic forced separation
\nwas somehow well motivated, justified by its historical context and,
\nas a result, unworthy of any apology today.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Then we come to the argument of intergenerational responsibility,
\nalso used by some to argue against giving an apology today.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But let us remember the fact that the forced removal of Aboriginal
\nchildren was happening as late as the early 1970s.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The 1970s is not exactly a point in remote antiquity. There are still
\nserving members of this Parliament who were first elected to this
\nplace in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It is well within the adult memory span of many of us.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The uncomfortable truth for us all is that the parliaments of the
\nnation, individually and collectively, enacted statutes and delegated
\nauthority under those statutes that made the forced removal of
\nchildren on racial grounds fully lawful.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
There is a further reason for an apology as well: it is that
\nreconciliation is in fact an expression of a core value of our nation
\n– and that value is a fair go for all.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
There is a deep and abiding belief in the Australian community that,
\nfor the stolen generations, there was no fair go at all.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
There is a pretty basic Aussie belief that says that it is time to
\nput right this most outrageous of wrongs.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It is for these reasons, quite apart from concerns of fundamental
\nhuman decency, that the governments and parliaments of this nation
\nmust make this apology – because, put simply, the laws that our
\nparliaments enacted made the stolen generations possible.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We, the parliaments of the nation, are ultimately responsible, not
\nthose who gave effect to our laws. And the problem lay with the laws
\nthemselves.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
As has been said of settler societies elsewhere, we are the bearers
\nof many blessings from our ancestors; therefore we must also be the
\nbearer of their burdens as well.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Therefore, for our nation, the course of action is clear: that is, to
\ndeal now with what has become one of the darkest chapters in
\nAustralia’s history.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In doing so, we are doing more than contending with the facts, the
\nevidence and the often rancorous public debate.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In doing so, we are also wrestling with our own soul.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This is not, as some would argue, a black-armband view of history; it
\nis just the truth: the cold, confronting, uncomfortable truth –
\nfacing it, dealing with it, moving on from it.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Until we fully confront that truth, there will always be a shadow
\nhanging over us and our future as a fully united and fully reconciled
\npeople.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It is time to reconcile. It is time to recognise the injustices of
\nthe past.. It is time to say sorry. It is time to move forward together.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
To the stolen generations, I say the following: as Prime Minister of
\nAustralia, I am sorry.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
On behalf of the Government of Australia, I am sorry.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
On behalf of the Parliament of Australia, I am sorry.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I offer you this apology without qualification.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We apologise for the hurt, the pain and suffering that we, the
\nparliament, have caused you by the laws that previous parliaments
\nhave enacted.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We apologise for the indignity, the degradation and the humiliation
\nthese laws embodied.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We offer this apology to the mothers, the fathers, the brothers, the
\nsisters, the families and the communities whose lives were ripped
\napart by the actions of successive governments under successive
\nparliaments.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In making this apology, I would also like to speak personally to the
\nmembers of the stolen generations and their families: to those here
\ntoday, so many of you; to those listening across the nation – from
\nYuendumu, in the central west of the Northern Territory, to Yabara,
\nin North Queensland, and to Pitjantjatjara in South Australia.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I know that, in offering this apology on behalf of the Government and
\nthe Parliament, there is nothing I can say today that can take away
\nthe pain you have suffered personally.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Whatever words I speak today, I cannot undo that.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Words alone are not that powerful; grief is a very personal thing.
\nI ask those non-indigenous Australians listening today who may not
\nfully understand why what we are doing is so important to imagine for
\na moment that this had happened to you.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I say to honourable members here present: imagine if this had
\nhappened to us. Imagine the crippling effect. Imagine how hard it
\nwould be to forgive.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
My proposal is this: if the apology we extend today is accepted in
\nthe spirit of reconciliation, in which it is offered, we can today
\nresolve together that there be a new beginning for Australia.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And it is to such a new beginning that I believe the nation is now
\ncalling us.
\nAustralians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
For us, symbolism is important but, unless the great symbolism of
\nreconciliation is accompanied by an even greater substance, it is
\nlittle more than a clanging gong.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It is not sentiment that makes history; it is our actions that make
\nhistory..
\nToday’s apology, however inadequate, is aimed at righting past wrongs.
\nIt is also aimed at building a bridge between indigenous and non-
\nindigenous Australians – a bridge based on a real respect rather than
\na thinly veiled contempt.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Our challenge for the future is to cross that bridge and, in so
\ndoing, to embrace a new partnership between indigenous and non-
\nindigenous Australians – to embrace, as part of that partnership,
\nexpanded Link-up and other critical services to help the stolen
\ngenerations to trace their families if at all possible and to provide
\ndignity to their lives.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But the core of this partnership for the future is to close the gap
\nbetween indigenous and non-indigenous Australians on life expectancy,
\neducational achievement and employment opportunities.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This new partnership on closing the gap will set concrete targets for
\nthe future: within a decade to halve the widening gap in literacy,
\nnumeracy and employment outcomes and opportunities for indigenous
\nAustralians, within a decade to halve the appalling gap in infant
\nmortality rates between indigenous and non-indigenous children and,
\nwithin a generation,
\nto close the equally appalling 17-year life gap between indigenous
\nand non-indigenous in overall life expectancy.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The truth is: a business as usual approach towards indigenous
\nAustralians is not working.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Most old approaches are not working.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We need a new beginning, a new beginning which contains real measures
\nof policy success or policy failure; a new beginning, a new
\npartnership, on closing the gap with sufficient flexibility not to
\ninsist on a one-size-fits-all approach for each of the hundreds of
\nremote and regional indigenous communities across the country but
\ninstead allowing flexible,
\ntailored, local approaches to achieve commonly-agreed national
\nobjectives that lie at the core of our proposed new partnership; a
\nnew beginning that draws intelligently on the experiences of new
\npolicy settings across the nation.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
However, unless we as a Parliament set a destination for the nation,
\nwe have no clear point to guide our policy, our programs or our
\npurpose; we have no centralised organising principle.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Let us resolve today to begin with the little children, a fitting
\nplace to start on this day of apology for the stolen generations.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Let us resolve over the next five years to have every indigenous four-
\nyear-old in a remote Aboriginal community enrolled in and attending a
\nproper early childhood education centre or opportunity and engaged in
\nproper pre-literacy and pre-numeracy programs.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Let us resolve to build new educational opportunities for these
\nlittle ones, year by year, step by step, following the completion of
\ntheir crucial pre-school year.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Let us resolve to use this systematic approach to build future
\neducational opportunities for indigenous children to provide proper
\nprimary and preventive health care for the same children, to begin
\nthe task of rolling back the obscenity that we find today in infant
\nmortality rates in remote indigenous communities up to four times
\nhigher than in other
\ncommunities.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
None of this will be easy. Most of it will be hard, very hard. But
\nnone of it is impossible, and all of it is achievable with clear
\ngoals, clear thinking, and by placing an absolute premium on respect,
\ncooperation and mutual responsibility as the guiding principles of
\nthis new partnership on closing the gap.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The mood of the nation is for reconciliation now, between indigenous
\nand non-indigenous Australians. The mood of the nation on indigenous
\npolicy and politics is now very simple.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The nation is calling on us, the politicians, to move beyond our
\ninfantile bickering, our point-scoring and our mindlessly partisan
\npolitics and to elevate this one core area of national responsibility
\nto a rare position beyond the partisan divide.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Surely this is the unfulfilled spirit of the 1967 referendum. Surely,
\nat least from this day forward, we should give it a go.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Let me take this one step further and take what some may see as a
\npiece of political posturing and make a practical proposal to the
\nopposition on this day, the first full sitting day of the new
\nParliament.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I said before the election that the nation needed a kind of war
\ncabinet on parts of indigenous policy, because the challenges are too
\ngreat and the consequences are too great to allow it all to become a
\npolitical football, as it has been so often in the past.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I therefore propose a joint policy commission, to be led by the
\nLeader of the Opposition and me, with a mandate to develop and
\nimplement, to begin with, an effective housing strategy for remote
\ncommunities over the next five years.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It will be consistent with the Government’s policy framework, a new
\npartnership for closing the gap. If this commission operates well, I
\nthen propose that it work on the further task of constitutional
\nrecognition of the first Australians, consistent with the
\nlongstanding platform commitments of my party and the pre-election
\nposition of the opposition.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This would probably be desirable in any event because, unless such a
\nproposition were absolutely bipartisan, it would fail at a
\nreferendum. As I have said before, the time has come for new
\napproaches to enduring problems.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Working constructively together on such defined projects would, I
\nbelieve, meet with the support of the nation. It is time for fresh
\nideas to fashion the nation’s future.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Mr Speaker, today the Parliament has come together to right a great
\nwrong. We have come together to deal with the past so that we might
\nfully embrace the future. We have had sufficient audacity of faith to
\nadvance a pathway to that future, with arms extended rather than with
\nfists still clenched.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
So let us seize the day. Let it not become a moment of mere
\nsentimental reflection.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Let us take it with both hands and allow this day, this day of
\nnational reconciliation, to become one of those rare moments in which
\nwe might just be able to transform the way in which the nation thinks
\nabout itself, whereby the injustice administered to the stolen
\ngenerations in the name of these, our parliaments, causes all of us
\nto reappraise, at the deepest
\nlevel of our beliefs, the real possibility of reconciliation writ
\nlarge: reconciliation across all indigenous Australia; reconciliation
\nacross the entire history of the often bloody encounter between those
\nwho emerged from the Dreamtime a thousand generations ago and those
\nwho, like me, came across the seas only yesterday; reconciliation
\nwhich opens up whole new possibilities for the future.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It is for the nation to bring the first two centuries of our settled
\nhistory to a close, as we begin a new chapter. We embrace with pride,
\nadmiration and awe these great and ancient cultures we are truly
\nblessed to have among us cultures that provide a unique,
\nuninterrupted human thread linking our Australian continent to the
\nmost ancient prehistory of our planet.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Growing from this new respect, we see our indigenous brothers and
\nsisters with fresh eyes, with new eyes, and we have our minds wide
\nopen as to how we might tackle, together, the great practical
\nchallenges that indigenous Australia faces in the future.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Let us turn this page together: indigenous and non-indigenous
\nAustralians, government and opposition, Commonwealth and state, and
\nwrite this new chapter in our nation’s story together.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
First Australians, First Fleeters, and those who first took the oath
\nof allegiance just a few weeks ago. Let’s grasp this opportunity to
\ncraft a new future for this great land: Australia. I commend the
\nmotion to the House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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