"the British came here & basically destroyed the lives of the local people and took everything"
Going back 200 years ago , the whole world was a sh*t hole to live . The British convict ships was floating coffins Huge number on those ships died before reach Australia Some cases from 800 passengers living English ports . only about 150 made it roughly . Talking about Aboriginals killed by whites . With out disrespect to indigenous people , how many Asians killed by Aboriginals in Victoria , when Asians where walking from Adelaide to Goldfields in Ballarat .?
Was there a single place in the world with no cruelty??
Human life was very cheap . Millions where dying from diseases , just in a number of days . That's why , all the medical drugs , boost the World's population in the last 100 years , from about 500 millions to 7000 mil.
We must wipe off all this historical records from our hearts , and move ahead and build a world with no differences .
And to achieve this , is not up to the God's , but up to us all ....with NO ONE excluded .