Kevin Rudd calls for Malcolm Turnbull to reconsider Uluru Statement, saying rejecting it 'is wrong'
ABCFormer prime minister Kevin Rudd has urged the Turnbull Government to reconsider its opposition to the Uluru Statement from the Heart. A decade since he delivered a historic apology to the Stolen Generations, Mr Rudd said Australia needed another significant step towards addressing the legacy of dispossession. "I would just appeal to Malcolm Turnbull to pause, and reflect and to consider the united voice of Indigenous people reflected in the Uluru Statement from the Heart," Mr Rudd said. The national apology was Mr Rudd's first act as prime minister in 2008 — he opened federal parliament with an emotive speech acknowledging generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people forcibly removed from their families. "It's a small secret about the day itself which is I'd only finished writing the speech about 20 minutes before I walked in, because I wasn't happy about the way I'd concluded it," he said.
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