... The Aborigines are thought to have arrived in Australia about one hundred thousand years ago from the north, where the arcing Indonesian islands hang down like easy stepping stones from mainland Asia (Saunder 33). ...
Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope wrote that the Aborigines “were and are savages of the lowest kind”. ... The invaders had the advantage of rifles over spears and Aborigines were shot in sight (Thompson 3). ... The process of removing the Aborigines began on the fertile coastal fringes where they lived in the greatest numbers. European sheep and cattle farmers shot the life that the Aborigines depended on for survival. When the Aborigines went to kill sheep for food, they couldn’t because they were too intimidated or dispossessed (Thompson 5). ...
Some Aborigines received food from church admissions and others worked on stations for property owners (Tatz 13). ... The white explorers could not have accomplished what they did, without the help of the Aborigines to show the safe routes and the water holes on the parched interior of the continent (Smith 20). ... By the 1930’s, authorities settled on a program of assimilation to bring half-caste Aborigines into society. ... The Aborigines set up a tent embassy outside of Parliament House in Canberra, and a constitutional referendum in 1967 gave them full citizenship and the right to vote (Tatz 17). ... This ruling meant that the Aborigines who could provide continuous contact with their land could claim vacant Crown land (Smith 23).
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