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Australia apologizes for nearly 225,000 forced adoptions after WWII
Australia on Thursday formally apologised for the forced adoption of tens of thousands of babies born mostly to unmarried mothers between the 1950s and 1970s. The adoptions, driven largely by religious groups in the post-war period, “created a lifelong legacy of pain and suffering”, the national apology delivered by Prime…
Australian restaurant agrees to remove urinals shaped like women’s mouths
A sumptuous new French restaurant in Sydney said Wednesday it would remove two urinals designed to resemble a woman’s lipsticked mouth, apologising for any offence they have caused. The Ananas Bar and Brasserie said the bright red-lipped urinals shaped like an open mouth were “a commonly used European design piece…
Thousands flee Australian town as flood fears grow
SYDNEY — More than 8,000 people fled their homes in Australia’s flood-hit southeast Tuesday as fears grew that a levee holding back the swollen Murrumbidgee River would fail. Floods have hit three eastern states this week, sweeping two men to their deaths after they attempted to cross waterways in cars…
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