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Matilda

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8. We can't read his mind,

Reply to mackerel (Reply #7)

Wed Jan 1, 2014, 04:46 AM

Jan 2014

but at the time Mandela was arrested, he said publicly that Mandela was a terrorist and should be kept in jail for life. He never recanted that statement, even after Mandela was freed.

I can only assume that he found it hard to back away from that statement and admit that he was wrong, but public pressure ultimately forced him to change his stand.

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Abbott Government is a disgrace to us all. [View all] Matilda Nov 2013 OP

And let's not talk about the Speaker of the House. Matilda Nov 2013 #1

Speaker of the House should not be a party's political pawn. Matilda Nov 2013 #2

And today - Gonski is gone. Matilda Nov 2013 #3

Abbott's got our backs. Matilda Nov 2013 #4

Abbott - International Embarrassment Matilda Dec 2013 #5

Abbott's token gesture to public protest. Matilda Dec 2013 #6

What was his reasoning before the change? mackerel Dec 2013 #7

We can't read his mind, Matilda Jan 2014 #8