Do the First Australians Deserve an Apology?

For over 40,000 years, the aboriginal people of Australia had lived peacefully. The one day, in the year 1788, English colonists stormed in and claimed the land for their own. As the years went by, the aboriginals were murdered and oppressed. That, in itself, was horrible enough. However, in the year 1869, things quickly became much worse. Half-castes (biracial children with a white father and an aboriginal mother) were forcibly removed from their aboriginal mothers and sent to live in camps, in an attempt to make the aboriginal population 'die out'. For the mistreatment of their people and the stealing of their children, the First Australians deserve an apology.