many thanks William, bravo indeed, we will sleep well tonight.....j
----- Original Message -----
From: William Mannle
To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [ConstellationTalk] Great day to be Australian
Bravo Australia!!
Bill Mannle
On Feb 13, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Jonine Lee wrote:
> dear Max and Chris,
> many thanks for posting this in such an appropriate space,
> dear fellow constellators it is such a momentuous day for us here
> and to be able to share it with a community around the world that
> can so appreciate what it means for us as a nation is so precious,
> thankyou for being there to hear us, the tears have flowed so
> freely today,
> My clients arrived and with each we just looked at each other
> embraced and cried, beyond words, it feels like we have grown up
> as a nation, taken responsability, realised the cost not to do so
> and embraced one another with a spirit of togetherness, both sides
> of parliment showed respect for one another and did not seek to use
> the occassion to grandstand ....
> to see the statesmanship that Rudd exhibited was hopeful re our
> future under this government, to hear him speak of the soul of the
> nation needing to say sorry was amazing and equally for the
> opposition leader to speak of his own family pain was also
> heartening , there is still
> fear of what this will mean amongst some AUstralians but.....the
> tide has turned, and yes i too feel deeply proud to be a person in
> this country,
> for all those displaced and excluded whether as an individual in a
> family system or as a race, a nation. \today speaks to the deepest
> part of us all the reaching out to one another.....and that
> reaching out being met
> with love to all,
> jonine
> jonine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Max Dauskardt
> To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:28 PM
> Subject: [ConstellationTalk] Great day to be Australian
>
>
>
> Today is a momentous day in the history of Australia
> Never has it been a greater honour to be a new Australian
>
> The Prime Minister of this country has as the first act of
> the newly elected parliament said SORRY
> Sorry to what had happened to all Aboriginals
> Sorry in particular to those tens of thousands who were as children
> forcibly removed from their families to be never returned.
>
> Why report here?
> It goes to the core of our work
> Constellation principles applied
> please read for yourself
>
> the full text of Kevin Rudd'd speech is to be found in:
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/kevin-rudds-sorry-speech/ ;
> 2008/02/13/1202760379056.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2
>
> below are some of the highlights
>
> with great joy from
>
> Alemka and Max
> Melbourne, Australia
>
> -------
> There is something terribly primal about these firsthand
> accounts. The
> pain is searing; it screams from the pages. The hurt, the
> humiliation, the
> degradation and the sheer brutality of the act of physically
> separating a
> mother from her children is a deep assault on our senses and on
> our most
> elemental humanity.
>
> These stories cry out to be heard; they cry out for an apology.
> ---
> As has been said of settler societies elsewhere, we are the
> bearers of
> many blessings from our ancestors; therefore we must also be the
> bearer of
> their burdens as well.
>
> Therefore, for our nation, the course of action is clear: that
> is, to deal
> now with what has become one of the darkest chapters in Australia's
> history.
>
> In doing so, we are doing more than contending with the facts, the
> evidence and the often rancorous public debate.
>
> In doing so, we are also wrestling with our own soul.
>
> This is not, as some would argue, a black-armband view of
> history; it is
> just the truth: the cold, confronting, uncomfortable truth -
> facing it,
> dealing with it, moving on from it.
>
> Until we fully confront that truth, there will always be a shadow
> hanging
> over us and our future as a fully united and fully reconciled
> people.
>
> It is time to reconcile. It is time to recognise the injustices
> of the
> past. It is time to say sorry. It is time to move forward together.
>
> To the stolen generations, I say the following: as Prime Minister of
> Australia, I am sorry.
>
> On behalf of the government of Australia, I am sorry.
>
> On behalf of the parliament of Australia, I am sorry.
> ---
> I know that, in offering this apology on behalf of the government
> and the
> parliament, there is nothing I can say today that can take away
> the pain
> you have suffered personally.
>
> Whatever words I speak today, I cannot undo that.
>
> Words alone are not that powerful; grief is a very personal thing.
>
> I ask those non-indigenous Australians listening today who may
> not fully
> understand why what we are doing is so important to imagine for a
> moment
> that this had happened to you.
> I say to honourable members here present: imagine if this had
> happened to
> us. Imagine the crippling effect. Imagine how hard it would be to
> forgive.
> ---
> Mr Speaker, today the parliament has come together to right a
> great wrong.
> We have come together to deal with the past so that we might
> fully embrace
> the future. We have had sufficient audacity of faith to advance a
> pathway
> to that future, with arms extended rather than with fists still
> clenched.
>
> So let us seize the day. Let it not become a moment of mere
> sentimental
> reflection.
>
> Let us take it with both hands and allow this day, this day of
> national
> reconciliation, to become one of those rare moments in which we
> might just
> be able to transform the way in which the nation thinks about
> itself,
> whereby the injustice administered to the stolen generations in
> the name
> of these, our parliaments, causes all of us to reappraise, at the
> deepest
> level of our beliefs, the real possibility of reconciliation writ
> large:
> reconciliation across all indigenous Australia; reconciliation
> across the
> entire history of the often bloody encounter between those who
> emerged
> from the Dreamtime a thousand generations ago and those who, like
> me, came
> across the seas only yesterday; reconciliation which opens up
> whole new
> possibilities for the future.
>
> It is for the nation to bring the first two centuries of our settled
> history to a close, as we begin a new chapter. We embrace with
> pride,
> admiration and awe these great and ancient cultures we are truly
> blessed
> to have among us cultures that provide a unique, uninterrupted human
> thread linking our Australian continent to the most ancient
> prehistory of
> our planet.
>
> --
> Max Dauskardt
> max@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Max Dauskardt
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