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Thread #103214   Message #2099914
Posted By: GUEST,Gerry
11-Jul-07 - 12:40 PM
Thread Name: 'Sorry Song' banned in Qld school
Subject: RE: 'Sorry Song' banned in Qld school
One difference between the slave trade in Bristol and the stolen generation in Australia is that everyone involved in the slave trade is long dead whereas the stealing went on into the 1970s. Today's schoolchildren aren't guilty of anything, of course, and it's even a bit of a stretch to say that their parents are guilty of anything, but there are plenty of folks in Australia today who knew what was going on back then and did nothing to oppose it at the time.