In this speech, the current Prime Minister Kevin Rudd represented the Australian Government formally apologized to the Indigenous about the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, community and those who suffered in their own land. He also indicated a real life story, an Indigenous woman, a victim who got stolen from her family when she was four years old. Through this story, he gave us a point of view from a person who has been suffering in the new culture, an example of life that might touch our heart and change our mind toward to the Indigenous people.
His speech has a very-well structure which also reveal the past, concern about the present and promise to the future that the justice will be brought back to the Indigenous and the "Close the gap" campaign, that the gap of hatred will be closed soon in the future and the relationship between the Indigenous people and the non-Indigenous is gaining over time.
Overall, Kevin Rudd and the government had realized the mistreatment that the former governments have made and apologized for that, and he also promised to make sure that the Indigenous will have a better future and hope that together, the Australian community will grow better.
I agree with you Rosa that Kevin Rudd did a very good job to recognise the need for reconciliation with Indigenous Australians. The question is 'what is now required to provide for healing and does the government's actions back up to what was alluded to in the speech'?
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