AUSTRALIA’S Aborigines renewed calls for official recognition of past injustices yesterday after a court awarded an Aboriginal man A$525,000 (€329,500) for being taken from his family 50 years ago.

Activists have renewed calls for an official apology after a court awarded 525,000 Australian dollars (€329,000) to an Aboriginal man taken from his family as a baby – the first such payout for a member of Australia’s so-called “stolen generation”.