Kevin Rudd made a very moving and powerful speech, acknowledging the
pain and suffering which was caused and expressing sorrow. It was a
moment in which so many of us listening also felt some of the pain
and weight of so many compassionless acts, and cried.
From a constellation learning point of view I found it valuable to
compare the Prime Minister's speech with the speech which followed,
given by the Leader of the Opposition. This speech seemed to
basically say - "but those people (the perpetrators) didn't know any
better - they thought they were doing the right thing, and we can't
be held responsible because we weren't even there"
Not surprisningly, there was a mixed and much weaker response to the
second speech.
It is also interesting to now hear commentary focussing on how
important it is for the Aborigines to now forgive. It definitely
takes away from the power of the moment and encourages us to move
quickly away from the pain.
Gail.
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wrote:
Perhaps now the Divided States of America can follow suit.Best J
Hey there Max and all we share your joy for emergent justice.
<max@...> wrote:
Enneapsychodramatics
Dr.Joseph M. Pirone 2018033080
On Wednesday, February 13, 2008, at 02:28AM, "Max Dauskardt"
speech/2008/02/13/1202760379056.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2
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-
The
below are some of the highlights
with great joy from
Alemka and Max
Melbourne, Australia
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There is something terribly primal about these firsthand accounts.
humiliation, thepain is searing; it screams from the pages. The hurt, the
separating adegradation and the sheer brutality of the act of physically
our mostmother from her children is a deep assault on our senses and on
bearers ofelemental humanity.
These stories cry out to be heard; they cry out for an apology.
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As has been said of settler societies elsewhere, we are the
bearer ofmany blessings from our ancestors; therefore we must also be the
to dealtheir burdens as well.
Therefore, for our nation, the course of action is clear: that is,
it isnow 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;
facing it,just the truth: the cold, confronting, uncomfortable truth -
hangingdealing with it, moving on from it.
Until we fully confront that truth, there will always be a shadow
people.over us and our future as a fully united and fully reconciled
the
It is time to reconcile. It is time to recognise the injustices of
ofpast. It is time to say sorry. It is time to move forward together.
To the stolen generations, I say the following: as Prime Minister
and theAustralia, I am sorry.
On behalf of the government of Australia, I am sorry.
On behalf of the parliament of Australia, I am sorry.
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I know that, in offering this apology on behalf of the government
the painparliament, there is nothing I can say today that can take away
fullyyou 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
momentunderstand why what we are doing is so important to imagine for a
happened tothat this had happened to you.
I say to honourable members here present: imagine if this had
forgive.us. Imagine the crippling effect. Imagine how hard it would be to
great wrong.---
Mr Speaker, today the parliament has come together to right a
embraceWe have come together to deal with the past so that we might fully
pathwaythe future. We have had sufficient audacity of faith to advance a
clenched.to that future, with arms extended rather than with fists still
sentimental
So let us seize the day. Let it not become a moment of mere
nationalreflection.
Let us take it with both hands and allow this day, this day of
might justreconciliation, to become one of those rare moments in which we
itself,be able to transform the way in which the nation thinks about
the namewhereby the injustice administered to the stolen generations in
deepestof these, our parliaments, causes all of us to reappraise, at the
large:level of our beliefs, the real possibility of reconciliation writ
across thereconciliation across all indigenous Australia; reconciliation
emergedentire history of the often bloody encounter between those who
me, camefrom the Dreamtime a thousand generations ago and those who, like
whole newacross the seas only yesterday; reconciliation which opens up
settledpossibilities for the future.
It is for the nation to bring the first two centuries of our
pride,history to a close, as we begin a new chapter. We embrace with
blessedadmiration and awe these great and ancient cultures we are truly
humanto have among us cultures that provide a unique, uninterrupted
prehistory ofthread linking our Australian continent to the most ancient
our planet.
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Max Dauskardt
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