Which statement is right? (A) The Aborigines have never been struggling to survive and to resist the official policy. (B) The modern political issue now is for the government of Australia to apologize to the Aborigines for all the injustices suffered by them. (C) Before the British colonization, the Aborigines spoke one language. (D) None of the Aboriginal languages has ever been taught at school as a second language.

Which statement is right? (A) The Aborigines have never been struggling to survive and to resist the official policy. (B) The modern political issue now is for the government of Australia to apologize to the Aborigines for all the injustices suffered by them. (C) Before the British colonization, the Aborigines spoke one language. (D) None of the Aboriginal languages has ever been taught at school as a second language.
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(B) The modern political issue now is for the government of Australia to apologize to the Aborigines for all the injustices suffered by them.
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