From little things…
Apology
Just under the surface…
It’s normal to feel sorry, it’s just a thing people do.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Look, we should have said this before, but what happened back then was wrong. Some of it was well intentioned, but it was still the wrong thing to do. We see that now and we also see the scars it has left on so many of you. We want to move on. There’s a lot we can do together, a lot we can achieve to our mutual benefit. But before that can happen we need to say, quite simply as a country, a government, a people, that we’re sorry.
The Highly Secret Bureau of Niftiness
Deep in the bowels of Parliament House.
First jokes, now apologies: The Overington/Newhouse affair gets serious
What are we to make of this little apology on page two of The Australian today, in which Caroline Overington expresses sincere regrets for her “encounter” with Labor candidate for Wentworth, George Newhouse, on polling day, writes Margaret Simons.
MacCormack: John Howard can’t help himself, can he?
Howard was smart to say sorry on Wednesday. It may not have gained him a single extra vote, but it suggested he was aware of having dudded Australians in 2004. But in offering one of his trademark dips into the dictionary, he undid all that in an instant, David MacCormack.
The PM’s sorry history
Media coverage of Prime Minister John Howard saying “sorry” for interest rate rises was seized upon by the Opposition yesterday. More fool them. The PM later sprung his trap, revealing that when he said “sorry”, it wasn’t actually an apology!
Still no apology for politicising science
No-one ever apologises for the big stuff. Hence Tony Abbott spent yesterday saying “sorry”, for his slur on asbestos campaigner Bernie Banton and for turning up late to the National Press Club debate. But no apologies for the Iraq war, or for the stolen generations, or for the government’s ten years of denial on global warming.
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