Social Darwinism and racial theories evolved throughout the nineteenth centuries across Europe, Britain and Australia (Broome, 2010). Concepts like the Great Chain of Being and Indigenous peoples being less evolved and closer to animals impacted on beliefs about their intelligence. Sciences like phrenology, measuring skull’s raised questions about their ability to learn and be equal to non-Indigenous peoples (Broome, 2010). In 1788 the race concept grew out of racial debates from Social Darwinism and other social science theories and so “few concepts in modern times have been less understood and few more liable to misuse than the concept of race when applied to man “(Lieberman, L., & Jackson 1995, p.231). The legacy of these ideologies remain
