Blogpost (Aus): Closing the Evidence GAP(More than Luck, 21 Aug 2010)

The national apology delivered in federal parliament by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 13 February 2008 appeared to signal a major transformation of Indigenous policy in Australia. Defeated Liberal Prime Minister John Howard had tenaciously refused to make this elementary gesture. Indeed his prime ministership was marked by a rejection of the reconciliation process that had begun in the Hawke/Keating era. His antagonism towards any recognition or protection of Aboriginal rights was almost visceral.