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>The Australian government has made a formal apology for the past wrongs inflicted by successive governments on the indigenous Aboriginal population.
>Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised in parliament in the capital, Canberra, for the laws and polices that inflicted "profound grief, suffering and loss".
>Mr Rudd also singled out the "Stolen Generations" of thousands of children forcibly removed from their families.
>On Tuesday, parliament began a new session with an Aboriginal welcome.
>In a special ceremony in Members Hall, Aboriginal elder Matilda House handed a symbolic message stick to Mr Rudd and spoke of "the hope of a united nation through reconciliation".
>"Today we begin with one small step to set right the wrongs of the past," Mr Rudd said afterwards.
>The Australian government has made a formal apology for the past wrongs inflicted by successive governments on the indigenous Aboriginal population.
>Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised in parliament in the capital, Canberra, for the laws and polices that inflicted "profound grief, suffering and loss".
>Mr Rudd also singled out the "Stolen Generations" of thousands of children forcibly removed from their families.
>On Tuesday, parliament began a new session with an Aboriginal welcome.
>In a special ceremony in Members Hall, Aboriginal elder Matilda House handed a symbolic message stick to Mr Rudd and spoke of "the hope of a united nation through reconciliation".
>"Today we begin with one small step to set right the wrongs of the past," Mr Rudd said afterwards.
