Apology to Aborigines hailed as historic shift for Australia
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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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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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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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Australia is now accepting more migrants from English-speaking nations than Southeast Asia for the first time since John Howard's Government came to power in 1996, new data shows.
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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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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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An Aboriginal man says racists drove him to quit the Australian Army, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Thursday. A photograph of soldiers dressed as members
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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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Aborigines have long lived on the fringe of Australian society, but they will take center stage when Parliament holds a historic ceremony to acknowledge the nation's capital is built on their land.
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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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Community leaders in Australia protest over government plans to curb child abuse in Aboriginal areas.
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Australia attracted the largest number of immigrants for a decade in the past financial year and is among the top three countries in resettling asylum seekers, despite its tough refugee policies, new data showed.
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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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Australia's government presents a formal apology for past wrongs inflicted on the Aboriginal community.
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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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Aborigines organized breakfast barbecues in the Outback, schools held assemblies and giant TV screens went up in state capitals Wednesday as Australians watched a live broadcast of their government apologizing for policies that degraded its indigenous people.
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An Australian state Tuesday approved millions of dollars in compensation for members of the "stolen generation" of Aborigines just weeks after the federal government rejected similar demands.