Politics has once again got in the way of pragmatism and principle. I am, of course, referring to the feigned Liberal outrage over the long-awaited delivery of a national apology to members of the Stolen Generations.
Media reports claim that when parliament resumes next month, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will utter the five letter word that […]

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So the date is finally set. February 13th.
After more than a decade of John Howard at the helm of the country, the new Rudd government will deliver an apology to members of the Stolen Generations on February 13th as one of the first acts of business for the new Parliament.

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One of Australia’s most prolific 24-hour news services – Sky News – ran a poll on whether the federal government should apologize to the Stolen Generations yesterday.
Although I do not have the final results, the polls findings were constant throughout the day. And they were hardly surprising, with a clear majority of participants voting […]

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Nicolas Rothwell is certainly a gifted writer. In a front page lead rant in The Australian yesterday, he rails against the announcement earlier this week by Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin that the NT intervention’s erosion of the Aboriginal land permit system will be wound back.
It’s all very colourful stuff from Rothwell. Apparently, Macklin didn’t […]

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Former NIC member turned Baath Party separatist, John Moriarty.

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Just as many Australians would be prepared to forgive Maxine McKew many sins for ousting The Rodent from the Lodge, this morning I’m prepared to forget that Jenny Macklin’s start in the Indigenous affairs portfolio has been a little, well, inauspicious.
Because this morning, news broke that Macklin yesterday gave the National Indigenous Council, that […]

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