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Today's national apology has done a lot to destroy the Howard legacy. A dead hand has been lifted. And the day, the fact that every MP stood to support the motion, has done much to further tarnish the former Prime Minister's reputation.
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Sadly Trev not every MP.
Tuckey, Mirrabella and Slipper were all absent.
Mean spiritedness lives on in some...
Posted by: Benjamin Haslem | 13 February 2008 at 12:02 PM
I suspect that it's also buried the chances of the new opposition leader ever getting anywhere also :-)
Posted by: Darren | 13 February 2008 at 02:24 PM
Completely agree Trevor!
Yesterday morning when I got into the office (having walked through the crowds in Martin Place) I made my own personal 'sorry' declaration on Facebook via Twitter (I appreciate doing that achieves nothing in a practical sense but yesterday was all about the symbolism, right?).
When I next checked back at the end of the day I found lot of my friends had done the same. I can't recall having seen that happen before and I thought it was an interesting outcome of on-line social networks. I wondered how many others did the same.
Perhaps in the future we'll no longer need to ask that 'where were you on that the day X happened?' question around significant events -- because we'll already know.
Posted by: Paul McKeon | 14 February 2008 at 11:10 AM