Australia announces funding boost for indigenous population pledge

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced 424 million dollars in new funding to improve the lives of the indigenous population (Lukas Coch/AAP/AP)

Fifteen years after the Australian Parliament’s historic apology to its indigenous people for past wrongs, the government has announced 424 million Australian dollars (£243 million) in new funding to improve the lives of Australia’s original inhabitants.

In 2008, a newly elected centre-left Labour Party government apologised to the indigenous population for “laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians”.