Apology To The Stolen Generations
On February 13, 2008, then Prime Minister The Honarable Kevin Rudd moved a motion of Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples, apologising for past laws, policies, and practices that devastated Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples—in particular members of the stolen generations. This was the new parliament’s first order of business, and Kevin Rudd became the first Australian Prime Minister to publicly apologize to the Stolen Generations on behalf of the Australian federal government. Tom Calma AO, then Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner with the Australian Human Rights Commission, delivered the formal response to the apology.
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