My understanding is that on Australia Day Mr Rudd will be saying sorry to the Aboriginal people for the supposedly stolen generation. I think he should be apologizing to all Australians for governments inactivity in helping kids like this:
QUEENSLAND welfare workers were unable to find a 13-year-old indigenous multiple-rape victim, a profoundly deaf cerebral palsy sufferer whose behaviour had exhausted 43 foster carers and who had been known to the system almost her entire life.
Doctors at Cairns Base Hospital had rung the Department of Child Safety crisis line in an urgent bid to find the girl to treat her for three sexually transmitted infections - chlamydia, gonorrhoea and trichomoniasis - contracted when she was allegedly raped by her 19-year-old cousin at Weipa on Cape York in December. Crisis line staff on December 28 were "unaware" the child was under the care of DCS and had no contact details for her, say case notes provided to the Cape York Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect office and obtained by The Australian....
...The Opposition Leader said it was "absolutely essential" the intervention be extended to Queensland and not only because of the revelations about rapes of children at Kowanyama and Aurukun.
"It's fair to say that some of the same issues that prompted the intervention in the Northern Territory are endemic in a number of remote Aboriginal communities in the Cape," Dr Nelson told The Australian at the Mossman Gorge Aboriginal community yesterday...
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