Australia's politicians a first looked to Europe and the US in foreign policy, but in the past 20 years or so they have made East Asia the priority, in particular Indonesia and China. The government formally apologised in 2008 for the past wrongs committed against the indigenous Australians, who still suffer from high rates of unemployment imprisonment and drug abuse. The gradual dismantling of the "White Australia" immigration policy in the decades after World War heralded an increase in the number of non-European arrivals, and migration remains a politically-sensitive issue.