Rudd under fire a year after apology to Aborigines

Rudd under fire a year after apology to Aborigines

A year after making a historic apology to Aboriginal people for centuries of injustice, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd came under fire Friday for failing to improve their lives.
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The "stolen generations" refers to Aboriginal children who were taken from their families and placed under foster care with white families or institutions under a misguided welfare policy which ended only in the early 1970s.