Australian Aboriginal Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin today announced, yet again, that they would be apologising to the country's Aborigines for past injustices "sometime really soon, honest, we mean it this time."The apology would fulfil a pledge made by the prime minister, Kevin Rudd, after his Labor party won the November elections.
During and subsequent to the landslide election win, the Labor government has kept stating they will "make the apology straight away and get it out of the way and we feel the best way to do it is to constantly come out saying we will be apologising 'soon' and then move the date back. We hope everyone will have forgotten by the time we get around to not actually apologising or apologising in such a way that it isn't actually an apology in the first place."
Commentators put the delay down to a large poaching of ex Howard staffers onto the Labor Government.
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