by Andrew Beatty SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Prime Minister Scott Morrison visited firefighters battling Australia’s bushfire crisis on Sunday as he apologized for a Hawaiian holiday that ended early after public outrage. Morrison toured the headquarters of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service — whose exhausted volunteers have been struggling to contain deadly, out-of-control-blazes for months on end — where he admitted he had erred in travelling overseas. Morrison had departed for a […]
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Australian PM gives national apology to child sex abuse victims
CANBERRA, Australia (AFP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison Monday issued an emotive apology to children who suffered sexual abuse, saying the state had failed to protect them from “evil dark” crimes committed over decades. “This was done by Australians to Australians, enemies in our midst, enemies in our midst,” Morrison told a parliamentary chamber in a televised speech, his voice trembling with emotion. “As a nation, we failed them, we forsook them, and that will […]





