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Sometimes words speak louder than actions. In Canberra on Feb. 13, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd voiced regret "for the pain, suffering and hurt" of the country's disadvantaged Aboriginal minority. It was a cloudy morning, but the crowd outside Parliament House was in a sunny mood. People brown and white laughed, embraced and snapped photos. Said Mavis Garrett, 67, an Aboriginal woman from Queensland: "If I see Mr. Rudd, I think I'd just run up and give...
Aboriginal Apology Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a historic formal apology to the nation's Aborigines for a long history of injustices...
NOORDIN TOP Suspected of planning the 2004 bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta, in addition to others...
...small ridge. In the middle of a nearby glade, Reinado, dressed in camouflage fatigues, held court. "The leaders say different things in front of the people and then different things in the back of the people," he began, angrily waving his rifle. His bodyguards fidgeted nervously as an Australian Black Hawk helicopter thudded away over a distant peak. In a rambling - at times incomprehensible - conversation, Reinado accused the Australian government of installing Ramos-Horta as a puppet to preside over the oil-fuelled economy, said he feared his life was under threat by supporters of the leftist Fretilin party...
...failed ISF attempt to capture him at the village of Same last year killed five of his men; ever since, Reinado appeared increasingly paranoid. Interviewing him several months after the raid (led by Australian special forces) involved lengthy mobile-phone contacts with intermediaries and sympathetic politicians. After his phone number was secured and contact made, he sent one of his men, disguised as a village local riding a motorcycle, to guide TIME to his hideout...