The policy of our nation. Government is an ongoing institution. It inherits the achievements, the responsibilities and the mistakes of its predecessors. The obligation to pay a pension toWWII veterans did not dissolve with the government in power at the end of the war. Nor do we think that the germany of today can absolve itself of what was done by the Germans fifty years ago.
Governments take up that inheritance all over the world, all the time.
Just last week the President of the United States apologised to the black men who were victims of government run scientific experiments sixty years ago. That is what this is all about. Not turning away. Trying to restore justice. Individual Australians are not guilty for what happened to our families.