An historic day - The Sorry speech

It was an important day today with the new PM, Kevin Rudd, finally saying Sorry for wrongs that have been perpetrated on the Aboriginal people of Australia by successive governments over the last 100 years, particularly to the "Stolen Generations"; Aboriginal children who were taken away from their families, often suddenly and violently, and taken to be brought up in non-indigenous settings.

The speech in Parliament began shortly after I got to work this morning (9am) and a few of us went across the road to the neighbourhood centre to watch it on their TV. It was very moving. Here is a video of it : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1jeWeDpc68 and this is where you can read it in its entirety :
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/02/12/1202760291188.html

I was asked if I had dressed in the Aboriginal colours (red, black and yellow) to honour the day. I had a red tank top over black trousers and shirt. I replied, no and that I wasn't wearing the whole get up - the yellow was missing. Later, however, I found that I was wearing yellow - my undies - but Gillian made me promise not to wear them outside my trousers so I could only assure the others that I was, accidentally, in full Aboriginal garb today. (The outfit was roundly criticised by Ishbel this morning who told me in no uncertain terms that the red and black "didn't work."