Read the passage from the apology to the Aborigines issued in 2008 by the Australian government.
“Let the parliament reflect for a moment on the following facts: that, between 1910 and 1970, between 10 and 30 per cent of Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their mothers and fathers; that, as a result, up to 50,000 children were forcibly taken from their families; that this was the product of the deliberate, calculated policies of the state. . . .”
—Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
Which Australian policy is being described?
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the conquest of Australia by the first European colonists
the displacement of indigenous peoples by European settlers
the forced assimilation of Aborigines
the conversion of Aborigines by European missionaries