Aboriginal Way Of Life

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The impact of the British was extremely disruptive to the Aboriginals way of life. Before the British settled in Australia the Aborigines had a good life. During the British there was a large amount of violence between the two sides. After the British, the violence stopped but the new Government still treated the Aboriginals poorly.
Before the Europeans came over the Aboriginals had a better life. The Aborigines moved from southeast Asia 40,000 years before the Europeans came over.(“Australia”) They then developed their rich culture. They had over 300,000 members living in peace. It was estimated that over 750,000 Aboriginals lived on the continent in 1788.(“A Brief Aboriginal History”) The Aborigines were living all
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The government tried to get rid of them. The new government used “The locked-gate strategy of the pastoralists, combined with bluff and intimidation, was directed to ensure that once the property had been rid of Aboriginal inhabitants, it remained so.”(“The forgotten struggle of Australia’s Aboriginal People”). When the British gave up they gave the government over to settlers who had the same intentions as the British. The new government made sure when the Aboriginals left an area of land that they would not return to it no matter what. Life was not great “For the last 200 years they have been oppressed to the point where they are now outcasts in their own land, unemployed, uneducated, unhealthy, impoverished and possibly the most imprisoned people on earth.”(“The forgotten struggle of Australia’s Aboriginal People”). The new government has made the Aborigines outcasts and unwanted on their own native land. They struggle to find education, jobs, and healthcare. The Aboriginals refused to accept that they can only remain in their native country if they are workers.(“The forgotten struggle of Australia’s Aboriginal People”) The government was trying to remove the Aboriginals any way they could. The new government was not attempting to make their lives better in any way.
European settlers in Australia now live a normal life “He stacked up some wood and split a few chips for the stove”(“A Hedge of Rosemary”). There was no violence involved. It was a good evening, with dark verandas and metal roofs. Children ran around in a weaving pattern in water in the river. The children laughed and had no

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