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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Kris Swales

Afternoon Update: Dutton regrets missing Rudd’s apology, Sydney child dies at Fiji resort, and a superb Super Bowl

Peter Dutton at Parliament House
Peter Dutton says he failed to grasp the ‘symbolic significance’ of the stolen generations apology in 2008. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Peter Dutton boycotted the stolen generations apology delivered by the then prime minister, Kevin Rudd, in 2008. Today, the opposition leader used the 15th anniversary of the occasion to admit he was wrong not to attend.

“I failed to grasp at the time the symbolic significance to the stolen generation of the apology,” Dutton said in Parliament House, where members of the stolen generations sat in the public gallery.

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