Indigenous Australians: Australia's First People
Indigenous Australians: Australia's First People
The Struggle for Change.
A Chronological Timeline.
Early White History (1770-1899)
Philanthropists guard the Indigenous Australians as a dying race. Scholars investigate them like animals in a zoo. “They comprise 2.5 percent of the Australian population and have life expectancy is 10 years lower compared to other Australians. It notes that aborigines' leading cause of their death is intentional self-harm due to the lack of a maintained health and emotional well-being. It also mentions that they continue to suffer from the consequences of the European settlement. (Littlefield & Dudgeon 2010, p. 39).
In 1768, the
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