Australia to Apologise to Aborigines
January 30, 2008 The Epoch Times
It´s been 10 years since the Australian government´s Bringing Them Home report on the ‘Stolen Generation’ children was released. The report detailed the way in which until the 1960s Aboriginal families were torn apart with children forcibly taken and placed in orphanages or fostered out to white Australian families in the hope of gradually assimilating them to white Australian culture.
Since that time Australia has been torn by an internal debate regarding whether the Australian government should apologize for this troubled history. Throughout the time of the conservative party’s 11 year dominance of the government, its leader John Howard refused an apology for fear that it would open the door to reparation claims.
Now with the newly elected Labor party in power, it has enacted upon its campaign promise to carry out a formal apology to the Aboriginal people of Australia on February 13.
Read about the events leading up to the apology.
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