Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jul 16
th, 2018 at 7:26pm:
Historically, Brian - that happened with all kinds of people who lived on the 'boss' property and worked for the boss, and who received a few paltry goods and a place to live in exchange for their work and servitude.
This was particularly prevalent in WA, that notorious non-convict colony which spawns paedos and serial killers and such with gay abandon - due to its rather haughty 'English' approach to the "master/servant relationship".
It wasn't only the position of Black Fellahs... and while I sympathise with your stance, it does no good to live in the past, but it does do good to work for a better future for all.
Let the dead bury the dead - my concern is the living.....
WA was a convict colony, just as were the NT (originally), Queensland, NSW, Victoria and Tasmania. Only South Australia was a free colony, settled entirely by free settlers, Graps.
Your concern for the living is admirable. Surely, however you must question how they reached the condition they presently are in? If the original Colonists had not ignore their instructions from London to treat them kindly and to settle a Treaty with the Indigenous Australians, I somehow think things would have turned out somewhat differently. Instead, they massacred them, stole their land, their children, destroyed their culture and society and in the case of the Stock Industry, effectively turned them into slaves. As long as white society denies it's own history, treating the symptoms won't cure the problem, Graps.