Re: Adam Goodes,unhappy Australian of the Year
Reply #30 –
Bernard Gaynor is an ignorant racist butthole!
The Aboriginal population of what is now Victoria was somewhere between 25,000 and 50,000 in the early 1800s. Fifty years after European settlement, Victoria's Aboriginal population had been reduced to less than 1,000 people. That may not be genocide but it's bloody close.
Schoolchildren aren't taught anything about that side of our colonial history.
I was, I was taught that it was disease that killed them.
Yes LR, disease played a part but it was also the excuse used by squatters to explain the sudden disappearance of Aboriginal people from their runs. Victoria's first European settlers came from Tasmania and were experienced participants in the Black War.
Did you learn about the Coniston Massacre in the NT? It was the last known massacre and between 60 and 100 Aboriginal men, women and children were slaughtered. It happened in 1928!