Need For Reconciliation and Acceptance Aborigines
... This treatment of our native people was wrong, and reconciliation must be made. Aborigines first arrived in Australia fifty thousand years ago and have since been living in a harmonious state with nature. ... In Myall Creek, NSW, in 1838, twenty-eight Aborigines, including women and children, were brutally killed. ... Despite all this, the most devastating treatment of the Aborigines was undoubtedly the Assimilation Policy, implemented in 1930. ... This immoral treatment towards the native people of our great homeland brings forth the desperate need for acceptance; and the great urgency for reconciliation between white Australians and Aborigines becomes blatantly clear. Apologies must be given to the Aborigines for the disastrous treatment towards them, in particular, the Assimilation Policy, where countless numbers of Aborigines’ lives were emotionally destroyed. It is reasonable to presume that most white Australians have, sometime in their life, made a derogatory or racist remark regarding Aborigines.