“‘Sorry’ means ‘respect’”

Personal stories help us to ‘get’ the big stuff. Here is Evonne Goolagong-Cawley’s, from The Australian:
 
TENNIS great Evonne Goolagong-Cawley used to hide under her bed when a stranger came to the door of her childhood home.

It was a knee-jerk reaction for an Aboriginal girl, living in southwestern NSW, repeatedly warned of the dangers of unknown [...]

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‘Sorry’ a chance for healing and justice

Let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. (Amos 5.24)

Today, Kevin Rudd has apologised on behalf of the parliament to the Stolen Generations. This apology was ’strongly supported’ by the Opposition. It’s a great moment for this country; it was moving to see the numbers of Indigenous people in the galleries of the [...]

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