13/02/2008 An Historic Day
pjfan31
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The government have finnaly apologised to the Aboriginies for the stolen generations.
Back in the 20's up till as late as the early 1970's, It was government policy to take Aboriginal children away from their families. They tried to Westernise these children and convert them to different religions and ways of life.
They even planned to out-breed the abgoriginals by getting an aboriginal to have a child with a white person, then the child of those two (when old enough) would have a child to another white person etc etc until the Aboriginals would be no longer.
This formal apology is well over-due and as our P.M Kevin Rudd who summed it up pretty well when he said "this is a black mark on our nations soul"
Today, I am prouder then ever to be an Australian... The best country in the world (In my opinion)
Back in the 20's up till as late as the early 1970's, It was government policy to take Aboriginal children away from their families. They tried to Westernise these children and convert them to different religions and ways of life.
They even planned to out-breed the abgoriginals by getting an aboriginal to have a child with a white person, then the child of those two (when old enough) would have a child to another white person etc etc until the Aboriginals would be no longer.
This formal apology is well over-due and as our P.M Kevin Rudd who summed it up pretty well when he said "this is a black mark on our nations soul"
Today, I am prouder then ever to be an Australian... The best country in the world (In my opinion)
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