ABORIGINAL CHILDREN IN AUSTRALIA

Early day motion 139, tabled 18 June 1997 by Fraser Kemp (Labour). Signed by 45 members.

That this House endorses the report by Sir Ronald Wilson, President of Australia's Human Rights Commission, which concluded that the Australian Government should apologise for the genocide of an estimated 100,000 aboriginal children taken forcibly from their families and placed into white foster homes; and calls on the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, to act on the findings and issue an apology.

Signatures by party: Labour 34, Liberal Democrat 7, Labour/Co-operative 3, Plaid Cymru 1.