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How did the aborigine dwindle in number level? |
Travel Info How did the aborigine dwindle in number level? Travel Tips It was a combination of things which includes white european settlers killing off the Aboriginal people in way of massacres as to the white settlers they were savages and only way to get rid of what they perceived as the problem was to kill them. Another huge problem which still exists today is the introduction of diseases that the Aboriginal people had not come across before and therefore had no immunity to such diseases. Aboriginal people today can expect to die 20 years earlier then there white counterparts. Another Govt policy which tried but failed to make the Aboriginal people extinct was the White Australia Policy. Where White men were to breed with Aboriginal people and these children who were identified as half castes were taken from their Aboriginal Mothers and placed in white Institutions and were forced to live and work as the white people did and again expected to breed with white men and so on and so on until there was not a hint of blackness. These Aboriginal people became as what we know today as the Stolen Generation. To the qld travel guru the Aust Govt made the Aboriginal people welfare dependant by handing out money and not educating them as hey they do not want educated blacks it scares the hell out of the Govt so by giving them the welfare cheques they hope that the blacks will just eventually kill one another or die due to their poor health anyway. To the racist renee em your so called South American friend has an identity problem and frankly she is one that the Aboriginal people could not give a F*CK about. I am Aboriginal and have worked in the most desolate of Area's with the most Traditional Aboriginal people and yes I would still call you a Racist. The Aust Govt has a lot to be sorry for and they know it. I do not want an apology for the wrongs that have occurred they and the rest of Australia can shove it. John Howard hit the nail on the head when he acknowledged the past wrongs that had occurred to the Aboriginal people even though he did not say sorry he at least acknowledged that yes it was white Australia that bought all their diseases that the Aboriginal people had no immunity to that they were massacred because they were believed to be savages by a bunch of criminals mind ya. I am not a lower class citizen as you put it and being in the health profession just as many white people come through the hospital doors addicted to drugs, alcohol,are on the dole. Screwed up people come in all races. OK so you say you worked in indigenous communities what has the govt done to help solve these problems im talking real solutions not just bandaid solutions in way of $$$$. I will tell you what NOTHING and why is that?? as they do not want Aboriginal people to get ahead. Sorry to tell you honey despite all the barriers Aboriginal People are moving Forward. Tell your South American friend she probably enjoyed getting Abstudy whilst studying to get to where she is was not South Anerican then (that is if she is not on the dole. Others The white European settlers killed them, especially in Tasmania, where the aborigines were completely wiped out by whites. The current Australian federal government in Canberra refuses to apologize for any crimes committed against aborigines in the past, making any kind of reconciliation between blacks and whites harder. This is, of course a disgusting state of affairs and typical of the arrogance of the current Australian government. I left Australia because of the current government's evil-ness. There were probably about a million Aboriginal Australians at the time of the arrival of the First Fleet. A hundred years later, disease and wanton killing had reduced the numbers to 10,000 - 50,000. They have increased in number over the last hundred years. There were at least 250 different languages 200 years ago, fewer than half of them survive and only about 50 are spoken regularly. Things are improving for Aboriginal Australians and will improve further later this year when the current xenophobic, racist government is swept out of power. Unlike the American Indian, there are a lot more than there were after European settlement. It costs a fortune in social security to keep them. There is 458,520 Aborigines in Australia as of 2001. The combination of disease, loss of land and direct violence reduced the Aboriginal population by an estimated 90% between 1788 and 1900. Some reasons for the dwindling numbers are: poverty (low income) discrimination poor education substance abuse (smoking, alcohol, illicit drugs) for remote communities poor access to health services including immunisation for urbanised Indigenous Australians, social pressures which prevent access to health services cultural differences resulting in poor communication between Indigenous Australians and health workers. exposure to violence Aboriginals are very suseptable to diseases such as diabetes type 2 etc and are more likely to have renal failure. And due to these things their life span is 17 years less then the average white Australian. A lot where wiped out in the early years, either shot or through disease. Some people would like our Federal Govt. to apologise for these happenings, which is very unfair, as they where not in power then. The British were a law unto themselves, as history as proved, if anyone should apologise, it should be the Brits, as they sent the white people here. |
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