Australia Quote by Stephen Kinzer

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow…

— Kevin Rudd

The Canadian government has had a field day apologising for past policies towards a series of ethnic groups: Italian, Ukrainian, Sikh, Chinese, Japanese and…

— Margaret MacMillan

The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual…

— Kevin Rudd

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest…

— Kevin Rudd

It seems to be the modern Canadian approach to Indigenous people: rather than deny their problems or accuse them of creating them through their…

— Neil Macdonald

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning,…

— Malcolm Turnbull

Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome…

— Rachel Nichols

I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead…

— Kevin Rudd

I just have to work on the apologetic side because I'm Canadian. We apologize for everything.

— Amanda Crew

The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and…

— Kevin Rudd

What we do to our native Australians, our own indigenous people, is nothing short of horrific.

— Peter Norman

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

— Justine Larbalestier