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Even Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was confronted with the issue when an elderly parishioner collapsed near him on Feb. 1, during a church service in the Australian capital Canberra. In what was a dream photo op for any politician, Mr Rudd was photographed carrying the parishioner out of the church and later urged residents to "pop in and check" on their neighbors in the extreme heat...
...wave was "consistent with climate change, and all of this is consistent with what scientists told us would happen." But some readers remained skeptical. "One swallow does not make a summer?a few stinking awful days doesn't mean the climate is changing either," one person emailed to the Canberra Times. It was not clear where in Australia he lived...
...their leaders need to say publicly, "We forgive you."Until that happens, there will be no reconciliation and Australians will not be able to move forward as one people. I hope there will be no more "sorry days." Perhaps instead we could have an annual reconciliation day. Jennie Stevens, Canberra...
...work in the Queensland cane fields, to the unwed mothers who until the 1970s almost routinely had their children taken from them, or to the avoidable victims of our hospital system's failures? I apologize to those I have omitted from the list of the wronged. Martin Gordon, Canberra...
Sometimes words speak louder than actions. In Canberra on Feb. 13, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd voiced regret "for the pain, suffering and hurt" of the country's disadvantaged Aboriginal minority. It was a cloudy morning, but the crowd outside Parliament House was in a sunny mood. People brown and white laughed, embraced and snapped photos. Said Mavis Garrett, 67, an Aboriginal woman from Queensland: "If I see Mr. Rudd, I think I'd just run up and give...