Australians wave a Aboriginal flag outside Parliament House as they celebrate Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to Australia's indigenous people for past treatment that "inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss," in a historic parliamentary vote that supporters said would open a new chapter for race relations in the country. in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008. The apology was directed at tens of thousands of Aborigines who were forcibly taken from their families as children under now abandoned assimilation policies, and extended to "the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities." (AP Photo/Mark Baker)