Approaches to Indigenous Issues

Some people have asked the question, ‘how’ the Australian Aborigines helped shape non-Aboriginal Australians. The response is to say that contact between the two races, both British and Indigenous Australians often resulted in bringing out the worst in people. Human beings have the innate capacity to be either ‘moral’ or ‘sinister. In 1788 Governor Philip arrived with the best of intentions in British treatment of the Australian Aborigine, however there was a determined effort by various …

…The Indigenous concern would, I believe, allow Aboriginal people’s the utter disgust in the countries leader. This approach undertaken by the current Prime Minister of Australia, volleyed in the ears of the Indigenous communities around Australia, that of a return to the past, a sense of betrayal and a lack of regret to the past actions undertaken by government, adds fuel to the fire and allows a racist Australian Government to continue in office.