Why is the Federal Government reluctant to apologise?
Senator John Herron, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, stated in 1998: ‘The government does not support an official national apology. Such an apology could imply that present generations are in some way responsible and accountable for the actions of earlier generations, actions that were sanctioned by laws of the time, and that were believed to be in the best interests of the children concerned.
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