{"id":6515,"date":"2018-02-22T03:43:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/kevin-rudd-lecture-10-year-anniversary-apology-first-australians\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:08:22","slug":"kevin-rudd-lecture-10-year-anniversary-apology-first-australians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/kevin-rudd-lecture-10-year-anniversary-apology-first-australians\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Rudd Lecture: 10-year anniversary of the apology to First Australians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0a public lecture at Curtin University on 14 February, Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd reflected on the official national apology he delivered to the Stolen Generation in 2008. He discussed the progress made over the last decade to close the gap and what can be done to complete the nation\u2019s reconciliation journey.<\/p>\n<p>He reinforced that the apology was essential for Australia\u2019s First Peoples, but also for the nation as a whole, because the events and actions that led to the apology are all part of our nation\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re going to harvest the good in our national narrative from our nation\u2019s past, then let us have the guts, or at least the intellectual honesty, to equally harvest the bad\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full lecture below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Apology to Indigenous Australia | A Decade On\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RdWa87acFpM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a public lecture at Curtin University on 14 February, Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd reflected on the official national apology he delivered to the Stolen Generation in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-6515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/KevinRudd14Feb18.png","author_meta":{"first_name":"Jarrad","last_name":"Long","display_name":"Jarrad Long"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 05:29:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6515"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=6515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}