Thousand native Australians got killed by European diseases, withdrawn of any civil rights and removed from their lands.
In 1967 the Australian constitution was changed to recognize Aboriginal People as equal citizens. Before this change was made, there were laws that did not count Aborigines as part of the Population. It was also said that the land belonged to the Australian native inhabitants but the court changed the concept and said that Australia is a land no one owns, when the British first arrived.
In 2008, Kevin Rudd, prime minister at that time apologized for the grief, suffering and loss the natives had to go through but also for the fact that Aboriginal children were removed from their families by federal- and government agencies and given to White Australian families. Despite the improvements in recognition of Aboriginal Australians that have already been made, there is still a Long way to go to remove the inequality between native Australian inhabitants and "non-native" Australian inhabitants.
Australia is famous for ist believe in giving everyone a fair chance, an equal opportunity, no matter what a person's race, gender or sexual orientation is. Then why not start with the native inhabitants?
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