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The link you posted is about Aboriginal and Tongan converts.

• defrost 2y ago
  The Tongans in the article are Christian missionaries, some of the aboriginals in the article are converts, others are not. Australia gets a lot of missionaries, W.Australia once had a web listing of missions in the state, it was well over a hundred organisations all seeking to save the aboriginals (the Pintupi Nine walked out of the desert here in 1984 never having seen or heard of Europeans or Jesus prior to that). Before the Tongan Christian missionaries were burning and destroying traditional aboriginal artefacts we've had numerous other Christian missionaries doing the same; the Lutherans varied, Carl Strehlow observed and documented (with some bias) although significant artefacts he was entrusted with were sent away without permission and destroyed all the same in WWII firebombing, other Lutherans were far less tolerant. The Christian Brothers took in both aboriginal children and post war British orphan children and were rather famously even handed, they treated all as slave labor and catamites for venel pleasure (bald fact I'm afraid, there's an entire multi year Royal Commission investigating that alone). Jimmy Chi's original stage play was far more damning .. the film was watered down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTiXSmQET2E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTiXSmQET2E