10 things you should know about the National Apology FILE A Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008 file photo of people gathered to mark Sorry Day, at the Esplanade in Perth. Friday, Feb. 13, 2009, marks the one year anniversary since Mr Rudd s apology. (AAP Image/Andrea Hayward) NO ARCHIVING INTL OUT Source: AAP
1. You should know. The speech
On 13 Feburary 2008, then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered an empassioned speech apologising to the Stolen Generations on behalf of the Australian Government.
In an interview on ABC s Radio National Kevin Rudd s former speechwriter James Button revealed that Rudd could, at times, have upto four people writing one script for him, criticising the slice and dice practice.
Jazz Money screamed in disbelief when she was told she had won last year s David Unaipon Award, having made her submission only two days before the deadline. I absolutely thought I wouldn t win, I didn t think poetry would stand a chance for some reason, laughs the artist and writer.
Ms Money submitted her poems to a few publishers before she entered the David Unaipon Award, and says she was feeling quite downhearted after being met with silence. Just before the Unaipon Award closed, I thought I d submit (the poems), because I was hopeful I would get some feedback and my words would be read by someone I respect, she tells NITV News.
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The Covid-19 pandemic, and related school closures, has negatively affected children’s right to a quality education around the world. Indigenous children both those living in and outside of Indigenous communities frequently faced additional barriers to distance learning alternatives. Often these barriers are due to historic marginalization, exclusion, and systemic discrimination that resulted in disparities prior to the pandemic, and which can manifest in lower-incomes, lower levels of education within families, failure to adequately accommodate Indigenous languages, and under-investment in necessary infrastructure such as the internet. As an education official in the Pueblo of Jemez, a Native American community in the United States, said: “This pandemic has
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