Australia to Apologize to Aborigines
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Australia will issue its first formal apology to the countryâs indigenous people.
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Australia's parliament opens with its first-ever Aboriginal welcome, ahead of an apology for past wrongs.
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Anger over the gang rape of a 10-year-old aboriginal girl has prompted Australia's new Labor government to make indigenous welfare the focus of a summit of national and state leaders this week.
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Australia's government calls for an end to a permit system which limits those who can visit Aboriginal lands.
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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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The Australian government's controversial plans to tackle child abuse in Aboriginal areas get under way.
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An Australian government rethink of its welfare system for Aborigines sparks widespread controversy.
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Germany offers its first formal apology for the colonial-era massacre of a Namibian tribe 100 years ago.
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Pope Benedict XVI has called on Australians to do more towards racial reconciliation between settlers and the country's Aborigines, many of whom live impoverished and marginalised lives.
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Australia's Aborigines are set to lose the legal right to stop people entering their outback lands, which cover an area almost the size of Mongolia, sparking protests their homes will become an "Aboriginal Disneyland".
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Prime Minister Tony Blair offered his governing Labor Party a qualified apology on Tuesday that the evidence on which he had taken Britain to war in Iraq had proved wrong.
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Prime Minister John Howard was heckled Sunday as he admitted some of Australia&#39;s Aborigines were still living on the fringes of society 40 years after a landmark vote recognising them as full citizens.
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Australia is to ban alcohol and pornography in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal areas in a bid to curb child sex abuse.
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Community leaders in Australia protest over government plans to curb child abuse in Aboriginal areas.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered an historic apology in parliament Wednesday to the Aboriginal people for injustices committed over two centuries of white settlement.
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Australia will ban alcohol and pornography in Aboriginal communities across the country&#39;s vast Northern Territory to combat widespread child sexual abuse, Prime Minister John Howard said Thursday.
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Pope Benedict XVI has called on Australians to address the social divisions that have left hundreds of thousands of Aborigines living in dire poverty.