African American Influence On Australian Society

For centuries, many believed the world only consisted of a few land masses that only included Europe, Africa, and Asia. As time, and technology progressed, people were discovering new lands across the world. With the discovery of these new lands, also brought new resources, and most important new land to build on. Unfortunately, most of these lands were already inhabited by the indigenous people of the land. This would naturally lead to conflict between the two groups that are vying for dominance of the land. At times this would lead to the group that had migrated to the area, winning these conflicts. This was either due to their advancement of technology, or something as simple as the diseases that they carried with them from their home lands. …show more content…
Yet it wasn’t till 1770 when Lieutenant James Cook declared the eastern part of Australia as an English colony, and called it New South Wales. (bbc.com.uk) Yet there would not be an influx of settlers for a few more years. When the first settlers were arriving; they were ordered by the King of England to treat the locals with respect, and to bring them in to empire. On January 26,1788, a mass influx of British colonist made their way to Australia, which the Aborigines refer to as invasion day. (Siddique) With such many people coming into the country, resources would be limited. Which would lead to clashes between the settlers, and indigenous people. Even though peaceful resolutions were attempted they would constantly fail, due to random acts of violence between the two groups. Unfortunately, much like the Native American population of the United States the Aborigines of Australia would fall to the diseases that the English brought with them from Europe. This allowed settlers to truly take power away from the indigenous people. With the colonist in power they separated themselves from the locals, even though there were attempts to integrate the groups. It would fail, since there would be continued fighting between the natives, and the settlers. Many settlers would conduct raids on lands that were for the natives, and the natives would conduct raids on the lands of the settlers. Both raiders and settlers …show more content…
The United Nations decided to step in, and declared what Australia was doing to their native population was an act of genocide. (Weir) The U.N stated that this type of law while affect the native population negatively for generations to come. With the U.N now bringing this practice to light to the world, Australia would stop this practice, and even claim that all the number given were exaggerated for political reasons. This would not be the last time Australia has had issues with the United Nations due to how they treat their native population. As of 2017 the U.N has denounced the treatment Australia has done on their native population. Per their findings, the current native population only makes up three percent of the population. (Weir) Even though they make up the smallest part of the population, they lead the nation in suicide rates, poverty, incarceration, and domestic violence. (Weir) Which may threaten their seat on the United Nations Panel on Human rights. Since this the panel that is currently running the investigation on the human rights violation being done in Australia. They are currently attempting to change things due to the U.N findings, but they are still some time away before the native population will see any change. Even during the 1990’s there was talk of giving reparations to the native population, but the government was not in favor of giving that much money away. In its place the government just