*FACE*
*PALM*
Gah!
Oh my... apparently he's cracked double figures again somehow. Guess it's hard to keep going down...
I do find this selective ownership of the past pretty interesting. However, I suspect that BN personally wanted to say sorry, but that elements of his party didn't, despite the fact that he won the leadership battle over Malcom Turnbull on the basis of not saying sorry. I found his sorry day speech a strange amalgam of different voices, some of which sounded sincere, and others palpably not. That's what happens when you sell out on the things you believe in for political gain.
Double GAH
(Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if BN hasn't been able to find 'Sydney'. He's pretty clueless, and probably prone to a bit of domestic urban blindness.
Finding 'the' Sydney is another thing altogether.)
Mr/Ms Foil,
In this month's Monthly Robert Manne pointed out the selective ownership stating the obvious paradox of being nationally proud of Gallipoli diggers without being nationally sorry for the Stolen Generations.
As for BN, he has all the credibilty of a soggy teabag. His speech on the day of the apology was immature, churlish and mean.
He is a joke of a man and an embarrassment of a politician/statesman.
Oh dear, you fed me a straight line: it's Dr Foil, actually(!).
I mostly agree with you, but not quite, because, I think there were bits where a different voice broke through - the most clear being when he said "I challenge anyone who thinks that indigenous people have had it easy to go to one of those remote communities and see if you wish you'd been born there".
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