When Kevin Rudd (as Prime Minister) makes a public statement, which body of people elected him to act as Prime Minister of Australia?
The electors of Outer Mongolia?
This may come as shocking news, but during the election campaign, one of Labor's key policies was to do precisely what Kevin Rudd did - make an apology (and why nit-pick on whose behalf) for what the Aussie culture did to Aboriginal culture.
One of the main characteristics of the defunct Howard era was a juvenine and asinine refusal to accept that white culture had done anyhing wrong when all the evidence pointed to the attempted genocide of Aboriginal people and culture.
I don't give a rat's backside if Rudd said 'Sorry' on behalf of Queen Victoria, he was man enough to say 'Sorry' when John Howard was not.
It was one of the most lucid, honest and incredibly moving speeches I've had the privilege of hearing.
The electors of Australia were not sure about Beazley, Crean or Latham as Prime Minister of Australia, but the wait for a Labor Prime Minister with the incredible emotional and intellectual literacy that Kevin Rudd revealed in his 'Sorry' speech today was absolutely worthwhile!
