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Speaker 1: Yeah, so big old day for the survivors of abuse

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Speaker 1: and state care today because the government through the Prime Minister,

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Speaker 1: finally apologized for this. And look, that is important. Look,

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Speaker 1: I know what they want is redress as well, a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of them and fair enough, and that will come.

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Speaker 1: But an apology also is very important, especially when you

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Speaker 1: consider how long it is officially not being a big

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Speaker 1: deal that kids went through what they did while they

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Speaker 1: were in the state of care. For it to now

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Speaker 1: be acknowledged as yep, absolutely actually a big deal, and

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Speaker 1: for the state to admit it did wrong, I think

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Speaker 1: that's really important. Slightly Unfortunately, the day has been overshadowed

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Speaker 1: by the anger that's been directed at the Solicitor General today,

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Speaker 1: and I think this is going to be the thing

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Speaker 1: that everybody remembers about today. Really. Una Jugosi tried to

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Speaker 1: apologize herself today as the Solicitor General. She was booed

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Speaker 1: by survivors, She was heckled by survivors. One woman walked out,

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Speaker 1: another turned her back to the Solicitor General while she

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Speaker 1: was talking in a move of protest, and plenty of them.

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Speaker 1: The reason they're so angry is because they want her

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Speaker 1: stripped from her job. They accuse her of covering up

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Speaker 1: what really happened to them. Now, I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: tell these people that they're not entitled to feel angry,

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Speaker 1: because of course they are. But what we have to

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Speaker 1: remember when we're discussing the Solicitor General's role in this,

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Speaker 1: and even in a lower role previously as a Crown

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Speaker 1: lawyer before she became the Solicitor General, is that Crown lawyers,

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Speaker 1: Crown law, the Solicitor General, they are the government's lawyers,

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Speaker 1: right they act in the best interests of the Crown.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty much the same as David Bain's lawyer, or

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Speaker 1: even Brenton Tarrant's lawyer, or should you or I be

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Speaker 1: accused of something significant our lawyers that our lawyers are

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Speaker 1: not there to look after everybody else. They are there

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Speaker 1: to look after us. They're working in the best interests

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Speaker 1: of their clients. And the same as true of Crown law.

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Speaker 1: It's really important context. When we feel angry at somebody

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Speaker 1: like the Solicitor General or Crown law for what they did,

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Speaker 1: I understand why Una je Gosi is copying it. Pretty

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Speaker 1: much the worst Today is much easier to pin the

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Speaker 1: blame on one person. Isn't it than to pin the

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Speaker 1: blame on a giant system like government, and especially when

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Speaker 1: you consider that government's change every few years. I mean,

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Speaker 1: one person is much easier to hold accountable than potentially

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Speaker 1: thousands of people for little bits that they did over decades.

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Speaker 1: And maybe it will make a lot of people feel

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Speaker 1: a lot better if she loses her job. But remember this,

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Speaker 1: it's not like she going to fix anything, is it.

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Speaker 1: Not in the past, and not for kids who are

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Speaker 1: in state care in the future. And beware the quick

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Speaker 1: solution because the quick solution may create a false sense

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Speaker 1: that things have been fixed when they really haven't. And

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Speaker 1: the most important thing is that things are actually fixed.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it more important than anything? She actually fronted up

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Speaker 1: today and so did the Prime Minister, and I say

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Speaker 1: that's got to be a good start. For more from

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