by Sean Reilly | Jun 12, 2008
The Canadian Government has followed churches and apologised for forcing 150,000 aboriginal children to attend state-funded Christian boarding schools aimed at assimilating them. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the apology in parliament in Ottawa, in front of...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 14, 2008
A festival atmosphere was evident on the lawns outside Parliament House in Canberra yesterday. Thousands of people celebrated outside in the wake of Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations. That much was evident from the television broadcast and the...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 12, 2008
The first opening of the Australian Parliament after the election of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Labour Government has proved a historic moment in the history of Australia – with an apology finally being made to indigenous people – write Doug Hynd and Simon...
