Australia Learns to Say "I'm Sorry"
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The government finally apologizes to Aborigines forcibly taken from their families over the course of six decades. But don't ask for compensation
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âBreaking and Enteringâ climaxes in a welter of apologies. Everyone in London, it seems, has cause for remorse and for my part I regret that I lost count of the number of times the words âIâm sorryâ were uttered on screen.
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Australia's Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson has called for an apology from an independent MP who had accused him of bribery.
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The Australian government will take the historic step of offering a formal apology to Aborigines "as early as possible" in the new parliament, Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin said Monday.
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For Tony Blair, sorry seems to be the hardest word. A day after the prime minister expressed regret about bad intelligence on Iraq, delegates at the Labour Party's annual convention were divided over whether they'd heard a genuine apology for the war.
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Australia signalled a new hardline approach on welfare for its Aboriginal people as it vowed to end &quot;sit-down money&quot; -- generous handouts for doing little.
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Australia welcomed Saturday Japan's backdown on plans to hunt humpbacks but said it had still lodged a formal protest with Tokyo calling for an end to all whaling.
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Australia will issue its first formal apology its indigenous people next month, the government announced Wednesday, a milestone that could ease tensions with a minority whose mixed-blood children were once taken away on the premise that their race was doomed.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Sunday scolded the country's opposition for haggling over the exact content of a planned apology to Australia's Aborigines, saying its meaning will be quite clear.
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Australia's parliament opened with its first ever Aboriginal welcome ceremony Tuesday as new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd prepared to give a landmark apology to the minority's "Stolen Generations."
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An offended Indonesian politician received a flurry of apologies from senior Australian officials on Thursday over his alleged ill treatment by police during a visit to Sydney.
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As curses go, the one that haunts this fortunate isle, Australia, isn't quite in the same league with the recently bleeped "Curse of the Bambino."
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Tony Blair yesterday offered critics of his Iraq war strategy his most contrite justification for the conflict so far but stopped short of an outright apology, removing the word &quot;sorry&quot; from the text of his speech to Labour&#39;s Brighton conference in
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Candles outside Australian parliament spell out apology as official opening ceremony is marked by aboriginal welcome for first time
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set for a rocky appearance before Australia's parliament with war veterans on Tuesday calling for an apology over Japanese war crimes and environmentalists demanding an end to whaling.
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Comment is free: Richard Flanagan: The apology to the Stolen Generations may not alter the lives of Aboriginal people. But it is a crucial step for all Australians
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is the country's most popular leader in two decades after apologizing to Aborigines for past injustices and ratifying the Kyoto climate pact, a poll showed on Tuesday.