The handpicked cultural advisers of prime minister Kevin Rudd have confronted him over his attack on Bill Henson’s photographs of naked teenagers, and have warned that the Melbourne artist potential prosecution damages the Australia’s cultural reputation.
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One of the tens of thousands of indigenous Australians known as the Stolen Generations, Debra Hocking reflects on being forcibly removed from her family and enduring years of abuse as a result, before campaigning for a formal apology from the government.
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