Australia...as bad as anywhere else...?

[billc]

Yeah, we all have our history...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_of_Indigenous_Australians

Massacres on Australia's frontier tended to fall under a veil of secrecy due to fear of possible legal consequences, especially following the Myall Creek Massacre in 1838 and thus remained unrecorded as a general rule.[SUP][1][/SUP] In cases where reports had to be written the records can at times be seen as having been later destroyed. Recent studies into the most significant and notorious case of this kind, that of Queensland and its Native Police Force, were thus deliberately expunged sometime in the first half of the twentieth century.[SUP][2][/SUP]) It is generally acknowledged that the European as well as indigenous death toll in frontier conflicts and massacres in Queensland exceeded that of all other Australian colonies, yet it is certainly not possible to map out more than a small percentage of the numerous massacre sites in Queensland. We can calculate in various ways the minimum amount of frontier 'dispersals' performed by the Native Police Force (as was indeed done recently by Dr Raymond Evans based on a small portion of monthly native police summaries of now lost 'collision reports' stored in the archives) the approximate amount dispersals performed by the native police during half a century. However, we will never be able to locate or describe in detail more than a small percentage of these events. Thus any attempt to list all events of this nature will of nature (at least in Queensland), be more deceptive than revealing.[SUP][3][/SUP]

Wow, reading that link...you guys sure didn't like the Aborigines...and from 2000, it seems you still don't...

This stings...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy

The term White Australia Policy comprises various historical policies that intentionally favoured immigration toAustralia by white people from Britain and strongly discouraged non-whites. It came into fruition with Federation in 1901, and the policies were progressively dismantled between 1949 and 1973.[SUP][1][/SUP]

You're just lucky Makalakumu doesn't live in Australia...you'd never here the end of this...even thought it happened so long ago...

Do you guys also have guys like jesse jackson and al sharpton constantly trying to create racism?

Don't get me wrong here...I like Australia and it's people...both the people and the country...and the past is the past and shouldn't be used to bash people alive today...

 

[jks9199]

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