Approaches to Indigenous Issues
Some people have asked the question, 'how' the Australian Aborigines helped shape non-Aboriginal Australians. The response is to say that contact between the two races, both British and Indigenous Australians often resulted in bringing out the worst in people. Human beings have the innate capacity to be either 'moral' or 'sinister. In 1788 Governor Philip arrived with the best of intentions in British treatment of the Australian Aborigine, however there was a determined effort by various governors, to drive the Aborigines from settlements and punish those who would not conform to the new 'way of life'. Often the Aborigines refused to accept British standards and could see no advantage in changing their ways. By the turn of the century, the settlers had no time for the Australian Aborigine. The Indigenous community was seen as being a pest and a nuisance, but of course, there were exceptions. By the middle of the nineteenth century, there was a belief in the colony, that the Aboriginal race was 'reaching its end'. Until this had happened they were to be kept out of the way of the British population and were herded onto reserves and missions, to live out their days away from the Australian population where they would not interfere
Such a statement shows the ignorance of the British colonists, their total lack of knowledge of the Indigenous community around them, and furthermore a certain desire to keep an absolute view of a superior status, than that of their fellow mankind, those of the Australian Aborigines. Keating,was therefore just, he had allowed the overturning of a past racist government and recognised "the 'fundamental truth' of the 'oldest culture in the world', a truth embodied above all in a 'timeless' association with 'the land' "(Morton, J 1996:118). Howard, are as similar as chalk and cheese. To state that they the Australian government had the power to allow for the dispossession of Aboriginal children from their families was an extremely powerful position that was allowed for the total control of the Aboriginal population here in Australia. The statements made by our two Prime Ministers of Australia, Mr. The term was coined in 1883 by English scientist, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin. kindle feelings indescribable in the breast of every generous member of our community and demand immediate punishment". They also stole cattle and sheep which soon brought the wrath of the farmers who often massacred the culprits. Social Darwinists regarded them as an earlier, less evolved people. The background to this was a hardening of attitude towards the Aborigines. The Indigenous community I believe would welcome this for at the first time in Australia's history has their been the leading spokesperson to freely admittting a history of 'dispossesion' and 'national shame'. This overview holds current when assessing the statement with relation to Curr 1886.
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