In a historic victory for Indigenous people and after 15 years of the Australian Parliament extending its apologies to the Indigenous people for past wrongs Behavior committed against them.

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Canberra, Australia-
Edited by|ANNA SAM
WORLD NEWS -CJ JOURNALIST
Feb. 15, 2023

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          The government on Monday announced to apology to the indigenous by giving them 424 million Australian dollars ($293 million) in new funding to improve the lives of Australia’s original inhabitants.

Albanese, whose Labor government was elected last year after nine years in opposition, told Parliament the new funding reaffirms "Closing the Gap as a top priority for my government."

In 2008, a newly elected center-left Labor Party government apologized to the Indigenous people for “laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering, and loss on these our fellow Australians.”

The focus of the apology was the so-called Stolen Generations — 100,000 children who were taken from Indigenous mothers under assimilation policies throughout most of the 20th century.

The apology was accompanied by the ambitious pledge to close the gap in life expectancies between Indigenous Australians and the wider population within a generation.

 

Historical depth;

Indigenous peoples[a] are the earliest known inhabitants of an area, especially one that has been colonized by a now-dominant group. However, usage of the term and who may qualify as being Indigenous vary depending on nationality and culture.In its modern context, the term Indigenous was first used by Europeans, who used it to differentiate the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the European settlers of the Americas and from the sub-Saharan Africans who were brought to the Americas as slaves.

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