[Greens-Media] RE: Senator Siewert's Inaugural Speech

[Twomey, Chris (Sen R. Siewert)]

> Senator Rachel Siewert
> Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia
> 
> Wednesday, 20 July 2005
> 	
> Inaugural speech 
> 
> I'd like to start by acknowledging the traditional owners of this
> country, the Ngunnawal people, and by showing my respect for the first
> peoples of this land. 
> 
> It always was and always will be Aboriginal land, and it is incumbent
> on us who have been chosen to represent this nation that we take
> responsibility for past wrongs and seek to redress current injustices.
> 
> 
> I am not afraid to say 'sorry' to our Indigenous peoples, and I look
> forward to the day when we will acknowledge their voices and do them
> justice by enabling their true representation in the governance of
> this nation. 
> 
> It is to our shame that we are the only developed nation which has
> failed to achieve this, and that the plight of our Indigenous peoples
> continues to worsen.
>  
> I stand here as the fourth in a line of determined Green women from
> the West to take on the Senate and progress the Green vision.
> 
> ....
> 
> For the full text - see www.rachelsiewert.org.au
> 
> 
> For more information or comment:
>   Chris Twomey 0407 725 025 
>   email senator.siewert at aph.gov.au
>   www.rachelsiewert.org.au
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