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 CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Determined to prove that a national apology to Australia's indigenous population is more than empty words, the government on Thursday promised more teachers to tackle widespread illiteracy in Outback Aboriginal communities.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd won international acclaim Wednesday by leading the Parliament in apologizing for racist assimilation policies that prevailed throughout most of the 20th century.
An estimated 100,000 children were forcibly taken from their parents between 1910 and the 1970s in an effort to make them grow up like white Australians.
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