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澳大利亚承认原住民为澳大利亚最早居民

2013年2月13日
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 13: The Aboriginal and Australian flags are seen flying near the Sydney Opera House on the day Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered an apology to the Aboriginal people for injustices committed over two centuries of white settlement on February 13, 2008 in Sydney, Australia. Rudd's apology referred to the 'past mistreatment' of all Aborigines, singling out the 'Stolen Generations', the tens of thousands of Aboriginal children taken from their families by governments between 1910 and the early 1970s, in a bid to assimilate them into white society. (Photo by Kristian Dowling/Getty Images)
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在欧洲移民踏上大洋洲土地225年后,澳大利亚议会下院通过一项法案,正式承认原住民是澳大利亚最早的居民。此举为举行旨在修改宪法的全民公投扫清了障碍。修改后的宪法将赋予原住民特殊地位。在澳大利亚,对宪法的任何修改都必须经过公投来决定。原住民在澳大利亚被认为是最弱势的群体,在该国各族群中,他们的平均寿命最短,而婴幼儿死亡率却是最高的。5年前,澳大利亚总理陆克文(Kevin Rudd)首次为原住民在过去受到的歧视和不公待遇表示道歉。