CANBERRA: Fifteen years after its parliament's historic apology to Indigenous people for past wrongs, Australia on Monday announced AU$424 million ($293 million) in new funding to improve the lives of the island continent's original inhabitants.
In 2008, a newly elected center-left Labor Party government apologized to the Indigenous population for "laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians."
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