South Norwega wrote:Mostrov wrote:Jedi 999 wrote:Mostrov wrote:Jedi 999 wrote:Sir do you want more examples than the white austrailia policy look at austrailia nationalist party won 25% of the elections in 1998 thats not very far and going back to another aboriginal question heres an interesting fact :
n 1987, a sensational “discovery” was made by a Sydney University team, led by Australia’s most celebrated pre-historian, Professor D J Mulvaney. They reported that the Australian population in 1788 was 750,000, or three times the previous estimate. They concluded that more than 600,000 people had died as result of white settlement.
Your knowledge of Australia as a nation is rather limited considering the fact that you equate highly antiquated laws such as the White Australia policy; which was created at a time when women were getting the right to vote, with (a minority) of racially motivated attacks against Indians.
Also the National(ist) party is actually one that represents people living in rural and country Australia, which is representative of farmers rights etc.; although right-wing (In Australia politics stick very close to the centre, infact last elections were almost entirely decided on the personality of the party leaders).
http://www.globalissues.org/article/165 ... nAustralia
Disease mostly, its the same case with American natives, they died almost entirely from disease.
Quite. This is what a whole lot of people don't realise about colonisation. People in Europe and Asia had different diseases from those in the Antipodes (why the hell am I calling them that) and the Americas. Thus they had no immunity and died en masse. Also cultural disruption played a large role, but Modern People can hardly be held accountable for the failings of people 200 years ago.
Jedi 999, if you had actually read that arcticle you would have noticed the adverse reaction for the 1 nation party in the senate elections, and it occured in the state of Queensland which has relatively little population compared to NSW and Victoria and has always been right-wing.
This source doesn't actually have any real idea of the socio-economic conditions under which the aborigines dwell, particularly in relation to the concept that they are actively discriminated against. As someone who has friends in the Human Rights Commision, I do know a lot of these things firsthand. Also the poisoning of waterholes and other active 'attacks' against the aborigines, they were mainly carried out by stockman who aren't representative of Australian society.