skip to main | skip to sidebar

The Laughing River Horse

Wednesday, 13 February 2008

A long time coming, a long way to go...


video:


or in full (needs Flash player):
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/video/200802/20080213-rudd-sorry-short_video2.flv

audio: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/audio/audio/200802/20080213-rudd-apology.mp3

text: http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/apology/text.htm

commentary and links:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/apology/
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/the-time-has-come--for-all-australians-to-together-build-a-truly-great-nation/2008/02/13/1202760342960.html

from the Mother Country:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7241965.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/12/australia

en français:
http://www.afp.fr/francais/news/stories/newsmlmmd.bfd7eb1de7d80ae480d34bd66a6ced61.a91.html
(si vous trouvez mieux, merci de m'en faire part!)

Posted by Hugo the Hippo at 10:15 am
Labels: apologies, history

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/14/australia
A long way to go, indeed. Encouraging, still.
--Paddington Bear

20 February 2008 at 3:59:00 am AEDT

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Hugo the Hippo's hilarious encounters with humans

Hugo the Hippo's hilarious encounters with humans

Blog Archive

  • ►  2010 (13)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (3)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2009 (53)
    • ►  December (9)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (7)
    • ►  September (4)
    • ►  August (4)
    • ►  July (6)
    • ►  June (6)
    • ►  May (5)
    • ►  April (8)
    • ►  March (3)
  • ▼  2008 (71)
    • ►  December (3)
    • ►  November (3)
    • ►  October (6)
    • ►  September (4)
    • ►  August (7)
    • ►  July (9)
    • ►  June (7)
    • ►  May (8)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (4)
    • ▼  February (13)
      • Quel petit con à guidon cornu au fond de la Cour?
      • Hippopotamical Hermelin
      • Viva Fidel the Pig!
      • On formicacion in my kitchen
      • A Hippo's croissant is his château!
      • SPÉCIAL POUVOIR D'ACHAT : pour 10kg de livres envo...
      • A long time coming, a long way to go...
      • Raisons pour mon départ (III - Complexes-Napoléon ...
      • Raisons pour mon départ (II - Bis/z[o]utages paris...
      • Raisons pour mon départ (I - Aquae Sextiae)
      • Définitions bilingues / Bilingual definitions :
      • Mythologie du vélo postmoderne, ou le choc culture...
      • Ça roule à gauche aux antipodes !
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2007 (24)
    • ►  December (6)
    • ►  November (18)

About Me

Hugo the Hippo
The People's Republic of Boulogne-Billancourt, France
My conception had something to do with forgetting to wind a grandfather clock, meaning that I was never created as such but simply historicised. There are nasty stories circulating about a bedridden writer raping a red swan, itself pleasingly conceived and carried out by a casting process in Birmingham delf. I took on plastic form in Denmark some time in the early 1980s and grew up in Melbourne and Sydney, before being imprisoned for most of my adolescent years in an airless plastic storage box. It is only in recent years that I escaped, ostensibly in order to provide a bunch of narcissistic postgraduate students with a ready-made catwalk, and have spent my time since then reflecting on the nature of laughter and the strange ways of humanity. All dialogue with the aforementioned is welcome in order to further my research. Conclusion of the foregoing.
View my complete profile