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[quote=JCNILE123,269976]Australia to Apologize to Aborigines
By ROHAN SULLIVAN (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
February 12, 2008 1:02 PM EST 
CANBERRA, Australia - 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.
The formal apology motion that new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd scheduled for a Parliament vote Wednesday was welcomed as a powerful gesture of reconciliation between the descendants of Australia's original inhabitants and those of the white settlers who now rule.
Aborigines remain the country's poorest and most disadvantaged group, and Rudd has made improving their lives one of his government's top priorities.
As part of that campaign, Aborigines were invited for the first time to give a traditional welcome Tuesday at the official opening of the Parliament session - symbolic recognition that the land on which the capital was built was taken from Aborigines without compensation.
The apology is directed at tens of thousands of Aborigines who were forcibly taken from their families as children under now abandoned assimilation policies.
"We apologize for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians," the apology motion says.
"To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry.
"And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry."

THIS FROM THE NEWS TODAY, PAUL I DO NOT THINK AUSTRALIANS HAVE BEEN TOO GOOD.
Do you agree?
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