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Australia Offers an Apology to Aborigines

2008 February 13

February 13, 2008  The New York Times

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has delivered a moving and long-awaited apology to Australia’s Aboriginals for past wrongs; in particular to the tens of thousands of indigenous children, known as the ‘Stolen Generations’, who were removed from their families in a policy of assimilation that only ended in the 1970s. Watch the formal Apology, delivered in Australia’s parliament on February 13. Read more

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