http://delarue.net/blog/2008/02/sorry/ …acting on knowledge, communication and learning Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:43:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://delarue.net/blog/2008/02/sorry/comment-page-1/#comment-10484 It’d take a lot of it to make a man laugh… » Blog Archive » The Story of Sorry Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:23:06 +0000 http://delarue.net/blog/2008/02/sorry/#comment-10484 [...] Kevin Rudd’s apology to the stolen generations yesterday was profound, and very moving.  I think it was also notable that the centrepiece of it was a story.  Just one story, of a single person’s experiences.  Yet this was a powerful way of making the speech something more than platitudes.  It showed a willingness to listen, and to attempt to understand, the experiences inflicted upon our indigenous people by authorities until as recently as the early 1970s. [...] [...] Kevin Rudd’s apology to the stolen generations yesterday was profound, and very moving.  I think it was also notable that the centrepiece of it was a story.  Just one story, of a single person’s experiences.  Yet this was a powerful way of making the speech something more than platitudes.  It showed a willingness to listen, and to attempt to understand, the experiences inflicted upon our indigenous people by authorities until as recently as the early 1970s. [...]

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