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Reconciliation or Revenge?

21 January 2017

9:00 AM

21 January 2017

9:00 AM

For a decade, a national apology was sought from Prime Minister John Howard. For a decade, he refused to provide one on the basis that most Australians were ‘sorry for past mistreatment but that is different from assuming responsibility for it’.

As our second longest serving Prime Minister, the last to leave behind a surplus and the last to survive a full term in office, John Howard’s position cannot simply be dismissed.

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