Today, thousands of Aborigines face a life of family breakdowns, drug and alcohol abuse, violence and mental torment caused by separation from their parents at a young age. 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 ... Natives were slaughtered in the course of settling this great country of ours. This is discounting all the Aboriginal deaths from poisoning; at the time it was acceptable to sell Aborigines poisoned flour ...

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