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[blamebrampton]

This is simply ridiculous. Three weeks and I still can't use my little finger to tension the yarn while I knit. Absurd! shiv5468's brilliant craft posts have me all inspired!

In other news, East Timor's president was shot and he is in serious condition in Darwin, but apparently this was not reported widely in the US according to my literate and reliable friends. Sigh.

The Australian Prime Minister will apologise to the indigenous population in just under six hours, partially for the whole dispossessing them against contemporary international law thing, mostly for the more recent stolen children thing, which ended some time after the previous Prime Minister was in Parliament, yet for which he always insisted he felt absolutely no personal guilt. Happily, new PM KRudd has a soul.

And I have shorter, chestnuttier hair, because I desperately needed to procrastinate today.

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[blindmouse.livejournal.com]

I tried to watch the live streaming of the apology this morning, but it didn't work for me, so shall have to remember to watch the news tonight.

Do you know, I didn't actually realise how huge the stolen generation thing was for me, just as an Australian who's never known anybody directly affected, until I tried to read faire_weather's Black, in the Smothering Dark fics, featuring a Muggle-born-magical-stolen-from-their-parents-to-be-raised-in-the-wizarding-world, subplot, and had to stop because I was feeling sick.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

ABC, parliament, Fairfax and YouTube all have it up now, so fingers crossed you can see the whole thing on one. I ended up watching all the ALP reaction shots at the end again and again because I am a bit stalkery that way.

Couldn't actually watch Nelson. I've decided that he apologised and will work in the bipartisan effort and that is good and I will just ignore the rest.

I can see how reading that would be a solid kick. When I first arrived in Aus I used to tutor some Koori kids and also taught others swimming (yes, they did have long laughs at the idea of being taught to swim by a Pom. Until I did my swimming the length of an Olympic pool underwater in one breath trick. Wish I could still do that ...). The various Aunties ("Nah, call me Aunty ...")would regale me with stories that made me shiver, when they weren't taking the piss about my pallor and pluminess. My half-sister's ex is a Koori lad and her son is, too. The idea that thirty years was what stood between him and such risk was terrifying. The fact that there are still people who do not get this (I accidentally read what the talkback audiences were saying) is more so.