Nation apologizes to Aborigines
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Australia apologized today to its indigenous people for past suffering in a watershed Parliament vote broadcast on giant TVs in cities, at school assemblies and at breakfast barbecues in Aboriginal communities in the outback.
Lawmakers unanimously adopted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s motion on behalf of all Australians.
The apology was directed especially at the tens of thousands of Aborigines who were forcibly taken from their families as children under now-abandoned assimilation policies.
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