Boarding an afternoon flight the day before, a State Labor Minister who was also travelling handed me a copy of the Apology that he had just received from a federal colleague. He was curious about what the Koories on board the flight would make of it. Just reading it, I didn’t immediately make much of it. It was not until the following nation-setting day, standing in the gallery of Parliament House, only metres from then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, when I heard the Apology and in doing so witnessed an event that will be forever remembered in the oral history of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, that it had impact.
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