Sorry

I'm a bit late to the party, but I've just watched on YouTube Kevin Rudd's apology to the stolen generations. I think it's the first time I've been inspired by our politicians for a long time, that someone has shown true leadership for the nation and moved us forward in indigenous relations, an area that Australia has really been lacking. It corrects the contradiction that we promote as very Australian the notion of a "fair go", but we weren't big enough as a nation to acknowledge that Aborigines receive anything but, and that such a simple symbolic gesture as saying "sorry" seemed too difficult... until now :).

Kudos to Kevin Rudd, under whose Prime Ministership it seems like we've become a lot more forward-looking and optimistic (in spite of our economic woes). Let's hope that there will be substance to the symbolism in the coming three years!