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# Remembering Keating's 1992 Reconciliation Speech
- URL: https://katecarruthers.com/remembering-keatings-1992-reconciliation-speech/
- Published: 2008-02-13T01:45:00.000Z
- Updated: 2008-02-13T01:45:00.000Z
- Author: Kate Carruthers
- Tags: ideas, #Migrated-1775015344493, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-04-01 14:49

On this day when [Australia's Parliament](http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/a-nation-apologises/2008/02/12/1202760301358.html?ref=katecarruthers.com) finally made an apology to the aboriginal people it is worth thinking back to Paul Keating's revolutionary speech in 1992 at Redfern.   
  
I still recall thinking that, at last, Australia was ready to be grown up now that our leader could talk in this way. Little did I realise that this would be followed by so many years of the exact opposite.   
  
It is worth remembering this visionary speech on such a day:  
  
  
By Carruthers via [Aide-mémoire](http://carruthk.blogspot.com/?ref=katecarruthers.com)  
  
  
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