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ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) - Aboriginal activists renewed demands for an official government apology to Australia's "stolen generation" on Thursday, the day after a court handed down a massive award to an Aboriginal man taken from his family as a baby.
The South Australian Supreme Court ordered its own state government on Wednesday to pay Bruce Trevorrow $448,000 for damages caused when he was taken from his parents without their knowledge 50 years ago. He is the first Aborigine to be compensated by a court.
From 1910 until the 1970s, around 100,000 mostly mixed-blood Aboriginal children were taken from their parents under state and federal laws based on a premise that Aborigines were a doomed race and saving the children was a humane alternative.
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