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  • August 2008

    • Children Can Count Without Numbers

      Wired  |  Aug 19, 08 8:30 AM CDT

      Children Can Count Without Numbers

      (Newser) - A study sure to fan a fiery disagreement among developmental psychologists has found that children can count objects even if their language lacks words for the numbers involved. Researchers found that Australian Aboriginal children, who know words for only a few small numbers, did just as well as English-speaking children on counting tasks, Wired reports. More »

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      Australia  • psychology  • brain  • language  • mathematics  • psychological research  • Aborigines

  • July 2008

    • In Aussie Outback, It's All in 'Skin' Name

      Radio Free Netherlands  |  Jul 7, 08 7:03 AM CDT

      In Aussie Outback, It's All in 'Skin' Name

      (Newser) - When she moved to the central Australian outback, Penny Bergen was ready for a drastically different life, but she didn’t know it would take a new name to stake her place in a tiny Aboriginal community. Reporting for Radio Free Netherlands, the journalist writes about her experience getting a “skin name”—a community nickname that marks your spot in “a sophisticated and complex kinship system.” More »

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      Australia  • name  • Aborigines  • name change

  • February 2008

    • Aussie PM Apologizes for Aborigine Child Abductions

      Sydney Morning Herald  |  Feb 13, 08 2:50 AM CST

      Aussie PM Apologizes for Aborigine Child Abductions

      (Newser) - Australia's new prime minister made a formal apology to the Aborigines today for "stolen generations" of children the government had taken from their homes. Tens of thousands of Aboriginal children were placed in orphanages or foster homes in a century-long program of forced assimilation. Throngs watched on big screens in front of parliament as Kevin Rudd apologized for the practice and spoke of removing "a stain from the soul of Australia." More »

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      Australia  • Kevin Rudd  • Aborigines  • stolen generations

  • January 2008

    • Australia to Apologize to Aborigines for Stolen Kids

      Times (UK)  |  Jan 31, 08 3:47 AM CST

      Australia to Apologize to Aborigines for Stolen Kids

      (Newser) - More than 100,000 Aborigine children were abducted from their parents and placed in  Australian orphanages and foster homes in a century-long campaign to assimilate them into European culture. Now new Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd will apologize for the abductions, carried out between 1869 and 1969, reports the Times of London. The policy inspired the movie, Rabbit-Proof Fence, which details two sisters' heart-breaking flight from their remote orphanage. More »

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      Australia  • Kevin Rudd  • Queensland  • Aborigines  • New South Wales  • stolen generations

  • June 2007

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