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In the late 19th-century the Social Darwinist ideas were influential, contained that Aborigines were an inferior race which not where capable to manage them self and destined to die out. In Van Diemen's Land, nowadays called Tasmania, the government removed the last survivors of massacre and disease to Flinders I in the late 1820s, the last full-blooded Aborigine, Truganini, died there in 1876. A community of people with mixed descent remains in Tasmania. Elsewhere in Australia, a hard work were made to confine them to government reserves or Christian missions. Aborigines have not accepted their lot as passively.

Australia's Aboriginal Roots Any educated American student knows that Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and founded America. Only later do they learn that America already had an indigenous population that Columbus, by his own error, named Indians. Pre-existing populations were forced off of their lands and placed on reservations, effectively changing – and in many cases destroying – life and culture as they knew it. This kind of history is not exclusive only to America. Even fewer people know of the pending extinction of the indigenous culture in Australia – the Aborigines.

The ‘watershed’ decision made by the High Court of Australia in 1992 (Mabo v Queensland) paved the way for Indigenous Australians to obtain what was ‘stolen’ from them in 1788 when the British ‘invaded’ (ATSIC:1988). The focus of legislation in the past w... ... middle of paper ... ...oseville NSW: McGraw Hill. Brennan, F. 1995. One land, One Nation. St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press.