unknown. But what if ignorance is intentional?
Intentional ignorance is a theory known and understood by few, but yet is practiced by so many. It dates back to the earliest days of Australian settlement, and is now a fuel to the racism that is embedded into the societal institutions of a nation with a historical legacy of being built on invasion, colonisation, prejudice and abuse.
On the 26th of January 1788, the first fleet of British settlers landed in Port Jackson led by Captain Arthur Phillip and colonised Australia declaring it as Terra Nullius ( nobodies land ) despite it being known that the land was occupied by more than 750,000 indigenous Australians native to the land. The first fleet did not report to the United Kingdom that
Intentional ignorance is a theory known and understood by few, but yet is practiced by so many. It dates back to the earliest days of Australian settlement, and is now a fuel to the racism that is embedded into the societal institutions of a nation with a historical legacy of being built on invasion, colonisation, prejudice and abuse.
On the 26th of January 1788, the first fleet of British settlers landed in Port Jackson led by Captain Arthur Phillip and colonised Australia declaring it as Terra Nullius ( nobodies land ) despite it being known that the land was occupied by more than 750,000 indigenous Australians native to the land. The first fleet did not report to the United Kingdom that