Australia PM takes Aboriginal welfare to summit
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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 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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Australian Prime Minister John Howard meets Southeast Asian leaders in Laos under growing pressure to sign a non-aggression pact with them to dispel concern about his policy of pre-emptive strikes.
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Aboriginal sports star Michael Long highlights discrimination and poverty during talks with Australia's PM John Howard.
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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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A tent city has sprung up near Australia's national parliament as Aborigines arrive in the nation's capital to hear the government apologize for past injustices against indigenous children and families.
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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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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd opened a new chapter in Australiaâs tortured relations with its indigenous peoples with a comprehensive and moving apology for past wrongs.
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Canada&#39;s prime minister has announced a financial package to help improve the health of the country&#39;s indigenous people, the Inuit.
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Police backed by military support will arrive in Australian Aboriginal communities within days as part of a controversial plan to end child sex abuse, Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday.
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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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Australian Prime Minister John Howard was due to meet the Dalai Lama later Friday in defiance of warnings from China that relations between the two countries could be damaged.
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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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British Prime Minister Tony Blair was in Ethiopia on Thursday to chair a summit he hopes will turn Africa's problems into a global priority.
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CURFEWS and alcohol bans may be necessary in Aboriginal communities, Prime Minister John Howard said today, adding that civil liberties were less important than staying alive.
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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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Australian Prime Minister John Howard  used the internet site You-Tube on Monday to sell an  Asia-Pacific leaders summit in Sydney this week, ahead of  expected protests against global warming and the Iraq war.