Aboriginal children must learn English: Australian minister
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Aboriginal children should be forced to learn English to escape lives of poverty and inequality, said Australia's indigenous affairs minister.
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Australia will issue its first formal apology to the countryâs indigenous people.
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Migrants who want to become Australian citizens will have to take English exams and prove their knowledge of local history and customs under new guidelines introduced Monday by Prime Minister John Howard.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard   has called on migrants, particularly Muslims, to integrate into   Australian society by quickly learning English -- sparking   warnings his comments may lead to race riots.
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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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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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Australia plans to strengthen immigration law with tough tests on language and culture.
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The Australian government has been accused of humiliating Aborigines plagued by a blinding infection after offering to provide their community with a gasoline pump if they agreed to make their children wash their faces twice a day.
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Languages should become a standard part of the English primary school curriculum, a report is expected to say.
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Australia&#39;s Aboriginal communities might lose some basic rights under a tough new approach to help lift their living standards.
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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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English language courses are struggling to meet increasing demand from adult migrants and refugees, a report says.
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Australia's prime minister announced plans Thursday to ban pornography and alcohol for Aborigines in northern areas and tighten control over their welfare benefits to fight child sex abuse among them.
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PRIME Minister John Howard has backed curfews and alcohol bans for Aboriginal communities where leaders want to put them in place.
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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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Ministers say citizenship should depend on good behaviour, passing English tests and knowledge of UK.
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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.