In his eloquent ‘Closing the Gap’ speech Tony Abbott’s call to all Australians ‘to open their hearts’ to Aborigines was far more effective than Paul Keating in his Redfern speech with his characteristic contempt for Australians. (‘We brought the diseases. We committed the murders. We took children from their mothers.’)
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