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Saturday, 21 June 2008 17:29 |
Australia's parliament has opened with an Aboriginal welcome, ahead of an apology for past wrongs inflicted on the country's indigenous community.
In a special ceremony, an Aboriginal elder handed a symbolic message stick to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
On Wednesday Mr Rudd is due to deliver a historic apology to Aborigines for past assimilation policies.
Under these policies, in place until the 1960s, thousands of children were forcibly taken from their families.
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 17:29 |
The Australian of the year 2007, environmentalist Tim Flannery, once predicted that Perth in Western Australia.
He could become the world's first ghost metropolis...
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 17:29 |
Australia's diplomatic march into Asia is continuing, with its latest achievement being a historic security pact with Japan.
The agreement is seen ...
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 17:29 |
A week to the day after two surf life savers had been assaulted in what was believed to be an unprovoked attack.
Suspicions lie with a...
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 17:29 |
In Australia right now, it is tough to be a bloke. "I turned on my television expecting to see the Haka,".
Was a recent night in Melbourne when...
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