Forms of appeal

Logos

Kevin Rudd appeals to reason when he includes factual information and uses logical arguments in the apology speech.

For example, he provides statistical evidence on the Stolen generations:

(…) let the Parliament reflect for a moment on the following facts: that, between 1910 and 1970, between 10 and 30 per cent of indigenous children were forcibly taken from their mothers and fathers; that, as a result, up to 50,000 children were forcibly taken from their families (ll. 123-126)

Logos can also be found in the speech when Rudd references Bringing Them Home, a 1997 report on the Stolen Generations (ll. 104-105), and when he quotes the Northern Territory Protector of Natives and references a declaration from the Western Australian Protector of Na...