Australia - Inglese

Australia's stolen generation to accept an apology

[Times - World]

She lit the cauldron at the opening of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and became the 400 metres gold medallist. But Cathy Freeman is also one of many Australians whose Aboriginal forebears were torn from their homes as babies. Freeman is frank about her disgust over the “stolen generations” but says that an apology by Parliament will represent a healing for her family.