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Aboriginals and the White Government

The white government is racist and Eurocentric; as a result they have brought about racial discrimination against the aborigines. The colonial attitude of the Aborigines was that they represented primitive animals not deserving respect as they belonged to the menial class of the suppressive society. The Laffey family does not accept this attitude as Cornelius criticise the hypocrisy of the Europeans as ‘poaching is approved by the government, and murdering the owners of the local ‘grouse’, blinked at’ (p. 32). He uses his job to write an article condemning a massacre of Aborigines which he witnesses first-hand. Cornelius refers to it as ‘needless and foolish acts of provocation and aggression on the part of the diggers’ (p. 31) and says that ‘even the quasi-official road-blazing part…had indulged in unprovoked killing of natives’ (p. 31). His article deliberately has been used to position the readers of the article to see European Australians as malicious and at fault. The dominant colonial view of the Aborigines is that they were criminals and troublemakers.

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