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...Australia is about to apologize for six decades of social engineering that took tens of thousands of children from their parents. The apology, to be made by Australia's new government on Feb. 13, has been taking shape since 1997, when a 600-page report titled "Bringing Them Home" hit politicians' desks. Studded with heart-wrenching personal narratives, the report - based on a 17-month inquiry by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission - found that between 1910 and 1970, perhaps 100,000 children had been "forcibly removed" from Aboriginal families...
Opponents of an apology said most of the allegedly stolen children had in fact been abandoned or taken in for their own protection from assault, sexual abuse and neglect. "People involved in the removal of children genuinely believed they were doing the right thing," the nonprofit group Reconciliation Australia counter-argued in a statement. "But as we know now, they were...
Town planners, civil architects and traffic engineers from the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Australia increasingly see shared space as a starting point for solving a wider problem: that towns and cities they have painstakingly designed to function smoothly too often turn out to be ugly, alienating and dangerous...
...train-station window, he was interviewed by a juvenile counselor. Startled by the young vandal's command of Gorky, Conrad and Steinbeck, the counselor eventually referred Sinclair to a copy-boy position at Wellington's Evening Post. From there, his progress through the newspaper world of New Zealand and Australia was buccaneering: sleeping rough on Queensland's Gold Coast after turning up drunk and late for a job on the Courier-Mail; moving in, at the age of 19, with a thirtyish American stripper named Melodie ("She taught me a lot, and it wasn't just how to carry...
...upon U.S. trade and can continue to power strong global growth even as the U.S. staggers. "There's no question the slump in the U.S. will hurt [Asia's] exports badly," says Shanghai-based independent economist Andy Xie. Indeed, demand for such diverse goods as iron ore mined in Australia and toys manufactured in China is already slowing, because for the first time in a decade the "key driver of the U.S. economy, the consumer, seems to have finally thrown in the towel," says Xie. If true - and the economic data increasingly suggest that it is - the party really...