Close your eyes and imagine you are at home enjoying the peaceful atmosphere. You hear the laughs of your children as they play and the aroma of your wife's cooking. You feel as if you are the luckiest person in the whole world, but suddenly your life is about to be turned upside down. Foreigners land in your country and start to settle, after years passed you notice more and more of them flooding into your nation with weapons; almost like an invasion. They have kidnapped your children. They have enslaved your people. They have killed anyone who opposed. Open your eyes.
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m your host, Thomson Poly, and tonight on NAIDOC week, I speak on behalf of Indigenous Australians as we dig deep into their history and uncover the cruel and tyrannous acts that were faced by the aborigines. Throughout this speech we will learn more about the colonisation of Australia (especially the effects on Indigenous …show more content…
As the children were kidnapped their identity, heritage and culture were stripped away from them and they were forced to take upon one of an european identity. A lady who was part of the Stolen Generation quoted, “I have no idea who my parents are, where I come from or what my culture is. This is the case for most people of my generation.” There was an attempt to apologize for the action of the Europeans by Kevin Rudd and we know this speech as “the sorry speech”. This famous speech was an act of apology on behalf of all Australians for the treatment of the Indigenous Australians, especially of those part of the stolen generation, however no major steps to bridge the gap between Indigenous Australians have been made since. It is evident that the indigenous Australians are a marginalised group due to the fact that they were persecuted and kidnapped from their
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m your host, Thomson Poly, and tonight on NAIDOC week, I speak on behalf of Indigenous Australians as we dig deep into their history and uncover the cruel and tyrannous acts that were faced by the aborigines. Throughout this speech we will learn more about the colonisation of Australia (especially the effects on Indigenous …show more content…
As the children were kidnapped their identity, heritage and culture were stripped away from them and they were forced to take upon one of an european identity. A lady who was part of the Stolen Generation quoted, “I have no idea who my parents are, where I come from or what my culture is. This is the case for most people of my generation.” There was an attempt to apologize for the action of the Europeans by Kevin Rudd and we know this speech as “the sorry speech”. This famous speech was an act of apology on behalf of all Australians for the treatment of the Indigenous Australians, especially of those part of the stolen generation, however no major steps to bridge the gap between Indigenous Australians have been made since. It is evident that the indigenous Australians are a marginalised group due to the fact that they were persecuted and kidnapped from their