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Another apology

July 23, 2009 – 8:57 pm

Saying sorry doesn’t magically fix injustices, past or present – a point which is often made in respect of the Parliamentary apology to the Stolen Generations.  It is true that apologising for past wrongs won’t in itself address present problems, but this fact doesn’t validate the view that formal apologies serve no purpose or have [...]

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UN Conference on racism beginning

April 19, 2009 – 12:03 am

The United Nations Conference to review the 2001 Durban Conference on Racismstarts in Geneva this week. The conference has been preceded by many calls for it to be boycotted by western countries on the basis that it would allegedly be running an agenda of anti-semitism.
Participating in something when you strongly disapprove of the agenda, process [...]

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