 | Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia |
 | Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia |
 | Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia |
 | Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia |
 | Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia |
 | Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia |
 | AUSTRALIA APOLOGIZES FOR MISTREATING ABORIGINES CLICK THE BLUE LINK BELOW TO WATCH THE HISTORICAL SPEECH BY AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER KEVIN RUDD APOLOGIZING FOR AUSTRALIAS MISTREATMENT OF ABORIGINES http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Cheryl_Shuman Australia apologised on Wednesday for the historic mistreatment of Aborigines, moving many Aborigines to tears and prompting cheers from huge crowds gathered in cities across the nation. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told parliament that past policies of assimilation, under which aboriginal children were taken from their families to be brought up in white households, were a stain on the nation's soul. "Today, the parliament has come together to right a great wrong," Rudd said. "We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians." The parliamentary apology comes 11 years after a major report into past assimilation policies found between one in three and one in 10 aboriginal children had been taken from their families between 1910 and 1970. The report urged a national apology to those affected, known as the Stolen Generations, but the then conservative government under prime minister John Howard rejected the finding and offered only a statement of regret. Rudd made the apology the first item of parliamentary business for centre-left Labor, which won power in November last year, ending almost 12 years of conservative rule. "It makes the indigenous community feel, for the first time in a real long time, really feel part of Australia, that it's embraced by the whole Australian nation," Stolen Generation elder Mark Bin Bakar told Reuters. "It's about us coming together as a country, acknowledging our past and moving on, accepting each other as brothers and sisters of this nation," he said.ous |
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 | Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia |
 | Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia Pacific Arts Festival - Aborigines from Australia |
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