Genocide And Discrimination

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Year 1992 finally witnessed the terra nullius deemed void. It was then in this very year that Prime Minister Keating admitted and spoke contrite in the Parliament the injustices, genocide and discrimination that the British colonizers had practiced against the Aborigines out of ignorance and prejudice. Historian reviewed the history of Australian colonization from angles that had previously been, perhaps consciously ignored. Writers like W.E.H Stanner and Henry Reynolds refer to the absence of fair records over interactions of the white British and black Aborigines as the ‘great Australian silence’ , and hold their ‘historical neglect’ responsible for it. The chapter of the racism in Australia was a bulbous one in history, and the efforts from

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