Th British colonised this country. They did so brutally. Any suggestion of how other people may have made it worse is moot. It is not worthy of academia. It is moot.
The British tore families apart. Disected human beings to send samples home to Mother England. Massacred countless of people. Drove people off their lands. Set them up in reservations where they exploited them. Stole children. Put people in chains. Made people work for nothing. Indentured them but didn't give them the right to vote.
Utterly decimated them.
Exploited them.
Sent their body parts back to England as curiosities.
ye gods...
AUstralia was founded on convicts/criminals ..
so yes an awful lot of bad people..made a lot of bad mistakes...but even this sounds over the top historically.....
do we ever expect anything to heal...when all people do is claim all the problems were one way...
no one living was there...probably very few could actually write the history as it was being played out..
so a lot is by word of mouth..
even N ed Kelly has become a HERO today... nothing at all to do with reality..