What Is The Impact Of Discrimination On Aboriginal People

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Discrimination is also marked among the Aboriginal people themselves. According to Richard Frank, a director to Aboriginal people, Some Aboriginal people have light colored skin while others have dark colored skin. The difference in the skin color among the indigenous Austrian people leads to lateral violence amongst themselves with the light colored Aboriginal discriminating the dark colored Aboriginal people. This is an issue that is currently common among the Aboriginal people. When the British arrived in Australia in 1788 and announced the land as their own under the terra nullius rule, the immediate impact of it on the locals was a cancellation of their rights and citizenship. Immigration laws were introduced that preferred the white race,

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