Apology to Aborigines hailed as historic shift for Australia
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Australian media and commentators Thursday hailed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to Aborigines for past injustices as marking an historic shift for the nation.
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Australia apologized on Wednesday for the historic mistreatment of Aborigines in a move indigenous leaders said would help end generations of pain.
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The Australian government will issue a formal apology to Aborigines when parliament convenes on 13 February.
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Australia's first Muslim lifesavers have hit Sydney's Cronulla beach, symbolising the changes seen since the worst race riots in the country's modern history erupted here just over a year ago.
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The new Australian government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will apologize for past mistreatment of the countryâs Aboriginal minority.
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Aborigines who were taken from their homes as children will get reparation from the Australian state of Tasmania.
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Dozens of Aborigines are preparing compensation claims after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised this week for past injustices, an indigenous spokeswoman said Friday.
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Community leaders in Australia protest over government plans to curb child abuse in Aboriginal areas.
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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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CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 13 -- In a historic vote that supporters said would open a new chapter in Australian race relations, lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously adopted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's motion to apologize to Aborigines on behalf of all citizens.
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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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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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Aborigine Jackie Huggins remembers when  she was regarded as part of Australia&#39;s native wildlife.
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Representatives for Australian Aborigines confirmed plans Friday to launch the first compensation lawsuits since a landmark government apology earlier this week for past abuses
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Australia apologized on Wednesday for the historic mistreatment of Aborigines, heralding a new era in race relations and moving indigenous people to tears as huge crowds cheered across the nation.
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Aborigines playing didgeridoos and  smeared with white body paint overturned hundreds of years of  British tradition in Australia on Tuesday by taking part in the  official opening of the nation's new parliamentary session.
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Aborigines on Tuesday said the government was trying to steal their land under the guise of responding to a crisis that Prime Minister John Howard has labelled Australia&#39;s own Hurricane Katrina.