Heather du Plessis-Allan: The most important thing is that things are actually fixed - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Big old day for the survivors of abuse in state care today because the government through the Prime Minister finally apologised for this.

That is important.

I know you know what they want is redress as well, a whole bunch of them, and fair enough... that will come.

But, an apology also is very important. Especially when you consider how long it has officially not been a big deal that kids went through what they did while they were in the state of care - for it to now be acknowledged as, “yep, absolutely, actually a big deal” and for the state to admit it did wrong.

I think that's really important

Slightly unfortunately, the day has been overshadowed by anger directed at the Solicitor General.

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