globeandmail.com: Australia PM proposes apology for Aborigines: "CANBERRA — Australia's prime minister on Tuesday proposed the text of an unequivocal apology by Parliament to Aborigines, the country's original inhabitants, for “the indignity and degradation” caused by the policies of past governments.
The motion, to be moved Wednesday by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Parliament, is directed at thousands of Aboriginal children who were forcibly removed from their families under assimilation policies that lasted for decades.
Aborigines remain the country's poorest and most disadvantaged minority.
“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."
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