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Article: Australian Parliament Expresses Regret For Injustice To Aborigines.
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- September 13, 1999
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Two years ago, Australian Prime Minister John Howard refused to apologize to Aborigines for 200 years of injustice committed to them, especially for the government's policy of seizing 100,000 aboriginal children from their parents from 1910 until the 1970s and either giving them to White families for adoption or putting them in orphanages under the belief that Aborigines were doomed and saving the children was the only humane alternative.
But recently, Howard presented a historic parliamentary motion that he called an attempt to reconcile Black and White Australians.
Parliament expressed "its deep and sincere regret that indigenous Australians suffered ...