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 1920 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? (1 point) Responses the conversion of Aborigines by European missionaries the conversion of Aborigines by European missionaries the conquest of Australia by the first European colonists the conquest of Australia by the first European colonists the forced assimilation of Aborigines the forced assimilation of Aborigines the displacement of indigenous peoples by European settlers
