... In this paper, I will examine the experience of the indigenous people of Australia and the lack of action on behalf of the Australian government. I will also investigate the extent to which the policies and practices of the colonial Australian government in the period 1838 to 1911 can be classified as "genocide", using the United Nations Genocide Convention of 1948 (which Australia ratified ... from being a regrettable pattern of misunderstanding and inability to appropriately dispense "justice" (albeit British justice) to the Aborigines into something else entirely. To those who would de...

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... Minnesota, the Modoc of California, and the "Meeker Massacre" caused by the Utes in 1879. In all these cases, although the government and military would hold the prisoners without food, the main cause of death was in fact disease. Ironically, Captain Henry Wirz, a Confederate ... appear in the genocide definition and its exactly what the Australian government, as well as the American government, did to the indigenous people. The United States government also has to do a little with the genocide of the Aboriginal people. The Australian government is leasing sacred lands of the Aborigines ...

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... rough and arid land, usually in comparison to something brand new and air conditioned (i.e. a four wheel drive). Apparently the media has long been accused of racism according to the Contemporary Australian Indigenous Societies Study Guide, 1999: "No employment opportunities in the industry for Indigenous people, no voice for the Indigenous peoples, biased, stereotyped, sensationalist representations of Indigenous people, no attempt at ... long the only ideas I had about Aboriginal people, were those I had collected through my limited life experience in a "white middle class environment...

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... traditional lifestyle because the British never settled the region. But for most of the Australian Aborigines, they have been pushed onto reservations far from home, and could not live without support from the government. Without wild game and water, their quality of life quickly dropped. Case Study ... DVD). Economic Issues: In recent history, Native peoples in the Americas and Australia were given reservations (plots of land set aside by the government for the sole use of Aboriginals). In Africa, centuries of foreign control and industrialization has eradicated most of the traditional c...

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... Introduction United States law has used the doctrine of "discovery" to justify the takeover of Indian people and territory. In the same way Australian law has used the concept of "terra nullius," the legal myth that Australia had no previous owners. Today it is easy to see ... constitutional matters. Binnie gave one example: Indians had the right to surrender land. His statement was greeted with laughter, it was so absurd. The federal government had an "empty box" theory. A box of rights had been protected by section 35, but unfortunately the box was empty. Indians responded with ... s...

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