Australia says 'sorry' to Aborigines
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to Aborigines Wednesday for past injustices, saying he wanted "to remove a great stain from the nation's soul."
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Government says it will formally apologise to indiginous population, but has no plans to compensate them
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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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Campaigners in Australia warn that Aboriginal languages are declining at record levels.
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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.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair condemned the African slave trade and expressed deep sorrow for Britain's role &#151; but stopped short Monday of offering an apology or compensation for the descendants of those victimized by it.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard was accused of misleading voters in the lead-up to the last national elections about asylum-seekers supposedly throwing their children into the sea.
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Australia captain Ricky Ponting apologises after being fined for dissent.
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Aborigines organized breakfast barbecues in Outback communities, giant TV screens went up in state capitals, and schools planned assemblies so students can watch the telecast of Australia's government apologizing for policies that degraded its indigenous people.
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The Australian government Monday rejected Aboriginal demands for hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for the "stolen generation" of indigenous children taken from their parents.
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'We're sorry for anyone who's suffered personal trauma,' says the armed forces' joint equality and diversity training centre.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Sunday that a planned official apology to Aborigines over the forced removal of children from their families will remove "a blight on the nation's soul."
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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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Australian indigenous leaders protest as PM insists measure is needed to stop child sexual abuse in Northern Territory.
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Australian government bodies withheld billions of dollars from Aboriginal workers, stockpiling the money while children were dying of malnutrition, a study released Wednesday said.
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Australia will issue its first formal apology to the country's indigenous people on Feb. 13, a senior minister said Wednesday.
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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.