Savvy politicians know it because they are more cunning than compassionate. They are getting on board the interactive gravy train fast for they fear losing the one thing that has sustained them for 300 years, control of the information flow. When they realise they can’t, they must change, as will schools eventually.

That is fundamentally what will change education too, we can’t control the flow, only guide it or become irrelevant.

The BO USA election experience is still being analysed but open democracy is going to be a revelation, if they allow it, as the snowball of participatory social action, such as Get Up et al, will make a significant difference to our futures if we engage.

The convergence of these forces is occuring now and I for one am participating in many causes I hold dear, this is one.

Thanks for caring and contributing.

Yet, the connection to Sorry Day is an interesting one. I found this on nine msn, researching responses to the speech and feeling surrounding that important day:
‘We apologise for not charging you rent on any lands when white people have to pay…’(http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=379056)

Watch people recoil at the thought of compensation for our (yes, our) stolen generations. One year ago I wrote I would feel a little pride in being an ‘Australian’. A year later? To acknowledge something did occur is the first step towards solution. We have all directly or indirectly gained from the disposession of indigenous Australians and that is the single most powerful thought. That if this was to occur to us we would what a simple word to be repeated. Also, we are missing the fact that the indigenous people are saying they need this. No Aboriginal person says they need something unless they do need it. Every single benefit- material or otherwise- has always been at the power of the white population. With every welfare payment it is white governments (sorry, after 150 years of the NSW government we have had one MP who is Aboriginal, elected in 2004, Federal MP’s? 1, plus one in the Senate) saying ‘have this because we think it will help you reach a white level’, now we have the indigenous people saying ‘we need this, we want this’. I mean we celebrate ANZAC day- a massive failure- why can’t we acknowledge another part of our history that was also a massive failure? We blush at our sporting idols, let us close our eyes and think what if this had been done to us…