Apology

On 9 January 2008, “The Australian Financial Review” (AFR) commented on business dealings by the former prime minister Paul Keating. The page 11 article referred to his closeness to former Indonesian president Soeharto and described these as “difficult memories” for the Australian Labor Party. The AFR accepts that Keating has not had business dealings with Soeharto, nor any person associated with his regime, and that their association was in accordance with the official relationship expected of heads of state. The AFR apologises to Paul Keating for any embarrassment from the article.

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This entry was written by Craig Silverman, posted on January 10, 2008 at 8:00 am, filed under Newspapers and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Peter F. Goolpacy
    Posted January 16, 2008 at 3:32 pm | Permalink

    This retraction doesn’t come close meeting the ingredients of a “perfect aplogy”, and no doubt did more harm than good. On a scale of 1-10, this one deserves a 2/10.

    In fact most of the archived “apologies” cited throughout this site would receive failing grades.

    PFG

  2. Shaphan
    Posted January 16, 2008 at 4:58 pm | Permalink

    Paul Keating was the prime minister of Australia, not its head of state, which was, and still is, Queen Elizabeth II. That’s the problem with the correction.

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