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A crowd gathered outside Parliament House watch as Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologizes to the Aboriginal people before the Australian Parliament, Canberra, Australia, 13 February, 2008.

The parliamentary apology comes 11 years after a report into past assimilation policies found between one in three and one in 10 aboriginal children had been taken from their families between 1910 and 1970. These children were known as the "Stolen Generation".

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