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Australia's treatment of it's indigenous population is a bit of a contrast to NZ's. (And I think it speaks in support of your comment -- the population is far
by whatusername 11y ago
Australia's treatment of it's indigenous population is a bit of a contrast to NZ's. (And I think it speaks in support of your comment -- the population is far closer to 2% than 14)
- fit2rule 11y agoAustralia's treatment of its indigenous population is really shameful - something that I think really needs to be discussed more openly. Australia got away with some of the most heinous racial cleansing programs to come from the modern world .. forced sterilizations, forced adoption of indigenous children to white families 'to shake the black out of them', and so on. These were government-funded and -supported programs, and continued even up until the 80's. And by 'got away with it', I mean, seriously got away with it. Its not like Australia is held to the same standards as Germany is today, with regards to its racial prejudice and general malaise within the white population towards the history of the indigenous people. I think thats because Germany started a war over their racial policies - Australia just quietly swept it all under the rug in the meantime ..