Liftingthe Shadow: Equity for Aboriginals
I have posted historical and current information related to Aboriginals in Australia and this is my final thread.
IMO there is much to be done before we can say they are getting a fair go. These Opening Posts also contain much to do with Aboriginal issues.
The Southern Cross Celebrations……….Post#: 37293748
The Perfect Socialist Society …………….Post #: 37493053Ernistine Hill and the Territory Frontier……Post #: 37372753
The Gulf Country-A National Disgrace ..…Post #: 37240189
The Killing Times ……………………........... Post#: 37638479
Greens and Invasion Day………………….Post #: 37097146
Australia or Invasion Day ………………….Post #: 37689971
We fell into the orbit of the world’s super when the British lost access to America as a place to send prisoners.
By then the presence of Australia or Terra Australia was well known and there was also interest from the Dutch and French who were circumnavigating the continent and recording its features.
Before 1788 Dutch, began to make contact with Australia's coasts in the seventeen the century. Making their way from their Indonesian trading posts, they were probably the first white people Aborigines had seen.
Contacts between them were very limited, for the Dutch made only fleeting visits to the coastline and had been instructed to be careful in any contacts with people found there -possibilities of trade must not be spoiled.
The Dutch went back,however, from their visits to report that there was no chance of trade, for the land seemed miserable and full of flies. The Aborigines, unimpressed with the trinkets shown to them, resented the visitors, who had attempted to kidnap some of them. Fear, hostility and occasional bloodshed marked contact between the two sides.
The Aborigines showed surprise and some resentment at their first sight of the new arrivals. Men brandished their spears and women and children often hid. The whites were feared as the returning spirits of the dead. But Aborigines did not mount a strong resistance to the founding of the convict colony.
Dampier’s view of the coastal, western Indigenous Australian clans he encounteredis stark as well as judgemental, and whilst Cook’s later eastern coastal exploration and related diary notes display a small cultural shift in attitude, Dampier’s account did influence British thinking for some time.
