On the 29th of April 1770, when a small vessel, Endeavour, first entered Botany Bay, the lives of the native inhabitants of the land, which was to be named Australia, changed forever. Although they were unaware of it at the time their undisturbed coexistence with the ecosystem would end after 65 millennia; the white man had come.

With them the white settlers bought disease, weapons, alcohol, and worst of all greed and hatred. The greed for possession of land and hatred towards the black race, to which the idea of possession was alien, caused the early conflicts between the European and Indigenous people.

Massacres were common, even as late as 1928 when 65 Walbiri natives were brutally murdered by Northern Territory Police. Altogether around 2000 White and over 20 000 Natives were slaughtered in the course of “settli

Aboriginal teenagers are thirty times more likely to be gaoled and also have the countries’ highest suicide rate. We can not ignore these problems as they affect the whole society. They are issues that we as a nation need to deal with, together.

By removing children from their birth parents to “breed out” the “inferior” Aboriginal race the Europeans had shattered the lives of everyone involved. It is finally time to stop blaming our fathers for this social experiment and recognise that only through reconciliation can we help seal the deep wounds that are at present bleeding the life out of these hapless individuals.

Throughout this conflict Indigenous children were kidnapped and exploited for their labour. Then the protection and assimilation Nazi-style policies came, which gave whites the undeserved power to control the lives of Indigenous people.

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Police Altogether, Aboriginal White, Botany Bay, Concentration Camp, , European Indigenous, indigenous people, stolen generation,