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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The Australian government's plan to apologise to Aborigines for past injustices ran into trouble Thursday when the opposition indicated it might not support the move.
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It's a basic lesson children learn even before their ABCs &#151; say you're sorry when you hurt someone. But it's now being taught in the grown-up world of medicine as a surprisingly powerful way to soothe patients.
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The Australian PM, Kevin Rudd, makes a formal apology in parliament to the country's Aborigines
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Australia's parliament opened with an historic Aboriginal ceremony Tuesday as new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd prepared to make a landmark apology to the minority's "Stolen Generations".
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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 captain Ricky Ponting apologises after being fined for dissent.
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Producers of Australia&#39;s version of the Big Brother televison programme apologised to Mexico on Friday after contestants threw goo-filled balloons at the Mexican flag.
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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 ...
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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 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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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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Australian media and analysts 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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CANBERRA will excuse Iraq $1.1 billion that it owes Australia as the war-torn nation attempts to get back on its feet financially.
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The prime minister has made a public apology to two families who were victims of one of the UK's biggest miscarriages of justice. Send us your reaction.
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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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Two days away from a closely-fought election, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Thursday he did not need to apologize for participating in