Today is 'national sorry day' a day when we're supposed to be sorry for Aboriginies.
Well I am!
I'm sorry that so many of them live with abuse and neglect at the hands of their relations and that their children have to be removed for their own safety and welfare.
I'm sorry that so many aboriginal children are sexually assaulted by aboriginal adults.
I'm sorry that so many aboriginal adults have had the incentive for work displaced by patronising 'welfare' payments that prevent them from controlling their lives.
That's what I'm sorry about.
But I'm not sorry for attempting to save people from a manifestly failed culture.
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