Australia rejects Aborigine compensation claim

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Australia rejects Aborigine compensation claim - Yahoo! News

Australia rejects Aborigine compensation claim - Yahoo! News: "SYDNEY
(AFP) - The Australian government Monday rejected Aboriginal demands
for hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for the 'stolen
generation' of indigenous children taken from their parents.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has pledged to apologise to Aborigines for
the widely-criticised policy, something his predecessor John Howard
refused to do during his 11 years in power before being ousted in
November elections.

But Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin Monday ruled out backing
the apology with the establishment of a compensation fund of a billion
dollars (870 million US), as demanded by some Aboriginal leaders.

"What we will be doing is putting the funding into health and
education services, and providing additional support for services
needed for counselling, to enable people to find their relatives," she
told national radio.

"So we won't be creating a compensation fund."

Posted by Angryindian
Australia rejects Aborigine compensation claim - Yahoo! News: "SYDNEY
(AFP) - The Australian government Monday rejected Aboriginal demands
for hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for the 'stolen
generation' of indigenous children taken from their parents.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has pledged to apologise to Aborigines for
the widely-criticised policy, something his predecessor John Howard
refused to do during his 11 years in power before being ousted in
November elections.

But Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin Monday ruled out backing
the apology with the establishment of a compensation fund of a billion
dollars (870 million US), as demanded by some Aboriginal leaders.

"What we will be doing is putting the funding into health and
education services, and providing additional support for services
needed for counselling, to enable people to find their relatives," she
told national radio.

"So we won't be creating a compensation fund."

Posted by Angryindian

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