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Aborigines open Canberra session |
Australia's parliament has opened with an Aboriginal welcome, ahead of an apology for past wrongs inflicted on the country's indigenous community.
In a special ceremony, an Aboriginal elder handed a symbolic message stick to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
On Wednesday Mr Rudd is due to deliver a historic apology to Aborigines for past assimilation policies.
Under these policies, in place until the 1960s, thousands of children were forcibly taken from their families.
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