Well given that Kevin Rudd is actually saying Sorry this week, I figured I really should get around to putting my Sorry cross stitch kit online. I put this together a couple of months ago but I have been struggling getting photos together and the time to do it.
So presenting the Sorry Cross Stitch Kit!
This pattern is designed to be worn as a patch, or stitched directly onto some clothing.
And you can buy one here.
I must say though, I find it amazing that there’s still 34% of people who don’t get why it’s important to apologise to the Stolen Generation. I mean, it’s not like the government will be apologising for invading Aboriginal land, stealing all the land, mass slaughter of Aboriginal people, introduction of disease and the corruption of government. It’s not like they’re acknowledging the undeclared war in this country and the tenuous constitutional existence of the state of Australia.
Goodness we’ve got a long way to go.
Those of you interested in these issues should join Curse of Dialect, ANTaR and others at Section 8 Bar after the apology broadcast in Fed Square (9am 13thFeb) for some good decolonisation conversation.
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Kia Ora e hoa
kevin rudds sorry spin, is the most disgusting display of sickly white liberalism I have seen in a while. Its not as if racist white settler strayaliea is let off the hook for committing and continuing to commit genocide against Aboriginal First Nations.
The invasion in the NT continues unabated. I dont see the gubbament rushing to sign the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous people.No restitution, No land rights, no treaty here, saying sorry is an absolute political ruse!
Reconciliation and healing are empty words meant to distance the despicable past from the hands that direct the present day occupation.
Under these terms there can be no justice but only racist denial. What else is new.
Say Sovereignty not Sorry
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Kia ora Anna
I agree that the invasion of NT must be stopped, the Declaration must be signed and there must be Treaty. But I disagree with your statement ’say sovereignty not sorry’. I think it should be say sovereignty AND sorry.
Wednesday was the first time in white Australia’s history that their hideous history was put on show and publicly acknowledged in the political arena. I really hate to agree with Ruddy cause most of the time he drives me up the wall but he was right when he said “the stolen generations are not intellectual curiosities. They are human beings, human beings who have been damaged deeply by the decisions of parliaments and governments. But, as of today, the time for denial, the time for delay, has at last come to an end.”
On Wednesday night as I spoke to a group of Aboriginal women who were in Melbourne to hear the apology they told me that this is the moment they can truly begin to move one from this part of the past. If they can get the government to acknowledge the wrong of this policy then it is possible to regain their proper place in society.
Remember this is only an apology on behalf of the government, not the people. It is an acknowledgement of past policy injustice. Now those families who were affected by that policy can move on. And of course it opens the way to compensation.
Like you, I’m always cynical about these things, but I will never forget the spirit that was on the street on Wednesday. It was by far the most optimistic feeling I have ever experienced in this country.
The challenge to us all, is to carry that spirit on to the current issues of sovereignty and Treaty.
Arohanui