Aborigines end British traditions in Australia
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Aborigines playing didgeridoos and smeared with white body paint overturned hundreds of years of British tradition in Australia on Tuesday by taking part in the official opening of the nation's new parliamentary session.
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Sweden returned to Aboriginal elders the remains of 15 of their ancestors taken from Australia for scientific research a century ago.
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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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An angry mob of nearly 300 Aborigines who went on the rampage on an island off the Queensland coast today burnt down a police station and threatened to kill its officers as well as several local council officials.
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Tourists may be banned from climbing Australia's most famous natural landmark, as part of protest over government crackdown in indigenous communities.
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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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Aboriginal leaders welcomed Thursday a new era of indigenous relations in Australia with a government that plans to acknowledge their traditional land ownership and apologize for past injustices.
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CANBERRA, Australia  - Aborigines won limited rights to land that includes an Australian state capital for the first time, potentially setting a precedent that could apply to other capitals.
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A London museum is seeking an out-of-court settlement over what to do with the ancient remains of 17 Tasmanian Aborigines, after Australian legal action was suspended, officials said Wednesday.
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Aborigines fear police and troops will seize their children as part of a controversial clampdown aimed at preventing widespread sexual abuse, the Australian government acknowledged Tuesday.
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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's aboriginal population is  booming as more people identify themselves as indigenous, but  Aborigines continue to be the nation's most disadvantaged  group, dying some 17 years younger.
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Community leaders in Australia protest over government plans to curb child abuse in Aboriginal areas.
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The last detainees leave a camp on Nauru, ending Australia's "Pacific Solution" immigration policy.
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Australia will issue its first formal apology to the country's indigenous people next month
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Sweden handed over to a group of Australian aborigines on Thursday the remains of about 20 of their ancestors smuggled out of Australia almost 90 years ago by a Swedish zoologist who pretended they were kangaroo bones.
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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.