Now I'd rather spread the plight of indigenous and aboriginal people over celebrate the genocide that killed so many of them. Indigenous people had lived on the continent for 65,000yrs before english colonisers arrived in 1788. There were 1 - 1.5mill of them living there then.
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(CW: DISTRESSING. Genocide.) By 1901 less than 100,000 remained due to official genocide policies: taking their land, killing their animals, shooting them for sport, raping the women, removing their children. Colonisers would even collect their heads.
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Considered ‘wild animals', ‘vermin', ‘scarcely human', ‘hideous to humanity', ‘loathsome' and a ‘nuisance', they were fair game for white ‘sportsmen'.”
#AustraliaDay celebrates the start of this genocide.
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Between 1910 and 1970 up to 100,000 Aboriginal children were abducted from their families. Aboriginals are forced the give up their traditional lifestyles and heritage for western values and as result many have died - entire villages due to a western diet, many from alcohol.
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Major research point to the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders still receive interpersonal and institutional racism which serves to keep them in lower socio-economic status by excluding them from economic opportunity and land ownership.
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We have so much work to do. Aboriginal folks and Torres Straight islanders do so much for Australia. They are Australia.
Let's start the work by refusing to celebrate the day a genocide began.
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Can highly recommend The Rabbit Proof Fence - an account of aboriginal girls taken from their mothers, to be educated in how to keep house etc.
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