As lawmakers continue debating reparations in the U.S., Australia’s prime minister said Thursday his country will pay millions of dollars in compensation to Indigenous people forcibly taken from their families.
For decades, a debate on reparations has been ongoing in the U.S., but it gained renewed attention last year as people around the world marched in protest of the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in May 2020 [of an OD-Ed] while in Minneapolis police custody.
