澳大利亚陆克文政府向土著居民致歉的原因探析

Analysis of the Reason that Kevin Rudd's Government's Apology to the Aboriginal People

2008年2月13日,澳大利亚总理陆克文代表新政府正式对澳洲土著百年来遭受的不公正待遇做出道歉。澳大利亚新政府的这一举措是多方因素合力的结果:土著居民维权意识的不断高涨促使政府去检省自己的种族政策;工党一贯奉行的和解政策决定了新工党政府必须在土著问题上有所建树;构建和谐社会取决于土著民族必须融入主流社会;而改善国际形象以及建立和谐亚洲则对澳大利亚的多元文化政策提出了新的要求。

On 13 February, 2008, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on behalf of the newly elected government said formal apology to aboriginal people who have suffered more than 100 years injustice treatment. There are many factors for this policy： an increasing sense of self- protection for their right forced the government to examine its ethnic policy; the Labor Party＇s government should do something in aboriginal issue; building a harmonious society depends on aboriginal people＇s integration with the society of main stream; in order to better its figure in international forum and to build a harmonious Asia Australia should do something new to its multicultural policy.