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Since 1998 Australia has acknowledged the harms caused to Indigenous Australians in a National Sorry Day on May 26. [87] In 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, on behalf of the Australian Parliament, deliver an apology to the stolen generations and to all Indigenous Australians who had suffered because of the unjust government policies of the past.
This is a timeline of Australian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Australia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see history of Australia .
A portrayal entitled The Taking of the Children on the 1999 Great Australian Clock, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, by artist Chris Cooke. The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions, under ...
Excision may refer to: In surgery, the partial removal of an organ, tissue, bone or tumor from a body; Type II female genital mutilation; A term used by the Australian government as part of its definition of the Australian migration zone; Excision theorem in algebraic topology, a branch of mathematics
The Timeline of Australian history outlines historical events ... 1970 - More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, ...
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1896 John Forest, Premier of Western Australia, unilaterally breaks the Western Australia Constitution Act 1890 (U.K.), granting self government to Western Australia, by taking control of Aboriginal Affairs from the British House of Commons, and which sliced funding below the 1% of government funds earmarked for Aboriginal Affairs in the WA ...
The human history of Australia, however, commences with the arrival of the first ancestors of Aboriginal Australians by sea from Maritime Southeast Asia between 50,000 and 65,000 years ago, and continues to the present day multicultural democracy. Aboriginal Australians settled throughout continental Australia and many nearby islands.