Why hasnt white australia been charged for the GENOCIDE of 1000s of aboriginals?

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Genki desu!

I dunno, that's like asking why white America hasn't been charged with the genocide of thousands of Native Americans or thousands of slaves...

Moyra D

Why should this generation of Australians be charged with crimes committed against the indigenous nations of Australia? No one currently hurt in any way any long deceased aboriginies

Or do you subscribe to the theory of punishing the great- great-great-great-great-great- grandchildren for the sins of their great-great-great-great-great grandparents ?

Wouldn't it be more logical for the massacres to be acknowledged and taught in schools so they would never be forgotten?

purplebuggy

I'm not a criminal. Don't blame me for things my ancestors did.

Goddamn hippie

PuppyPrince

Yawn.

You are so boring, it's a crime.

loving30

what?

you must be referring to when australia was first colonised by the British?

i would imagine it's because you can't 'charge' dead people.

brooklyn1416

I think it is because "white austrailia" didn't kill the aboriginals. specific white austrailians did. You can't lop a whole population into one generalization, any more than you can blame all of white americans for slavery, or all germans for WWII. Some people are just EVIL, not all.

West Aussie Chick

Because neither I nor any living Australian that I know of contributed to the killing of any aboriginals. That happened a long damn time ago and although there is a Sorry campaign running where white Aussies say sorry to the aboriginals...I will not do so as it wasn't me or any of my ancestors that did anything bad towards them. I grew up with aboriginals in the North West of WA and have plenty of really good friends and they have never held me personally accountable for any misfortune that befell their ancestors so why should you?

Almost every country has a history of white people coming in and killing the natives. Not just Australia. America killed the Native Americans, Spanish killed the ancient Peruvians, English killed the Indians (India not America), Dutch, English and plenty of others killed Africans etc etc etc.

Get of your high horse before someone knocks you down. Have you apologised or been charged for the killing of any natives in your country? I think not!

ll_jenny_ll here

I just answered your other question along the same vein as this ,... Perhaps I have been a little harsh.

this is obviously something you feel passionate about ...
and we all have our *THING* that we are most passionate about ( mine tends to be Greed of some people when others are in need .. and it just can set me off in a big way) ....

After a few minutes of thinking since i posted my first answer .. I am now going to write this to you ...

What has been done in the past .. IS in the past ..as in .. we can not undo anything .. Saying SORRY will NOT bring the dead back or undo the wrong... throwing money as an appology also doesn't help those who were wronged ...
It would be like me seeking financial benefits from England because of their perscution of my Irish Ancestors .. and If you want more examples of persecuted Indigenous people .. take a look at Ireland .. I didn't suffer .. English descendants of those who made my forebearers didn't make my forebearer suffer so why should they pay ...

WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT .. is firstly for all parties to say . YEAH BAD THINGS HAPPENED BUT .. Let's work together and try and make things better ..

Noel Pearson .. Is an Indigenous leader .. I really wish you would read things he has written ...
Rather than blaming the white australian for the plight of modern day koories .. Why don't MORE ( cos many already to) rise above the way things are IN SPITE OF US ... Become BETTER than us

Why don't more Koori leaders stand up and say WHITE MEN DON'T MAKE US ABUSE OUR KIDS, WHITE MEN DON'T MAKE US USE ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCES .. we need to be a little more self governing

Now I want to state categorically THAT i KNOW most Koori people DO NOT abuse their kids .. or use addictive substances

In my other answer I gave you examples of other colonised places ... I am sure you may be familar with the MidNight Oil song SHORT MEMORY .. remember the line re Beligians in the Congo .. have a look at THAT history ... and while it is shocking .. I am not giving you that to say OH WELL WE WEREN'T THAT BAD .. but to make you see that we are NOT alone in having a bleak part in our history.

Be passionate by all mean .. BUT be rational.

Edward Carson

'aboriginals' is spelt with an upper case A. And technically the word is an adjective and it is offensive to use it instead of the noun, Aborigine.
What, are you a racist, or just grossly insensitive to other people's feelings?

Ken E

You can believe all that if you wish. There were massacres of aboriginal people. Most of them were in the 19th century, generally before 1880. There is some talk of a massacre in the 1920s, perhaps involving 20 victims, maybe 60, but an aboriginal man who was supposed to have been among those murdered was found alive and with no knowledge of the crime. He was also hundreds of miles away at the time. No firm evidence of this has ever emerged.

Near the present city of Bundaberg, British (and I include Irish and Scots) settlers were supposed to have massacred several hundred people in the late 1840s in one incident. The British population of the district could have been counted on the fingers and toes at the time. Another fact was that repeating firearms were not invented until several years later. Anyone who knows anything about black powder firearms is aware that they are slow to load and can only be fired a few times before needing extensive cleaning. In other words, while it is possible, even probable that some were killed, the event on the reported scale just could not have happened. The journalist who pointed this out was called a racist.

On 17 October 1861 aboriginal people in Central Queensland killed almost all the Horatio Wills party of settlers at Cullin-la-ringo. There were 19 victims including a woman and a baby of only several weeks age. Wills was a well known businessman, landholder, former newspaper man and member of parliament. He was probably the 19th century Australian equivalent of Sir Richard Branson. The motive was plainly robbery as the camp was plundered with most of the goods removed and cached several miles away. Retribution followed. It is not known how many aboriginal people were killed in vengeance attacks, but it was at least 300 and might have been 1000 as innocent people were victimised by outraged settlers. The massacre of the Wills party occurred less than two years after a similar massacre of settlers at Hornetbank on the Dawson River.

Between about 1855 and 1865 at least 200 British settlers, shepherds and lone travelers were killed by aboriginal people in Queensland alone.

During the 1980s I was informed by a TV program made by the Uniting Church that the Cullin-la-ringo attack was caused by Wills distributing smallpox infected blankets to local people. The party had been on the site at most ten days, and the incubation period of smallpox is at least a week. In addition few of the settler party would have been vaccinated. Wills would have had to have given the supposed blankets out almost from the time they arrived. The smallpox blanket story does not hold water.

My great-grandmother was a teenager in a country area of Australia in the 1880s. She told of how an epidemic of diphtheria passed through the district. She said that one in three of the young British children and several adults died as a result, but among the aboriginal people nearly all the young children died and many of the adults too. There were no doctors in the district at the time.

The aboriginal people had no inherited resistance to diseases like diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, tuberculosis, German measles and so forth. Vaccines or effective treatments against these were not invented until between the late 19th or mid 20th century. There is no evidence that any settler deliberately introduced any disease to the aboriginal population.

Most of those that died as a result of the establishment of the British rule died of disease, disease which was virtually uncontrolled among the British. Exactly the same thing happened to native Americans two or three centuries before.

I have scanned the sites you linked to. Only one of them is relevant today. That is

http://www.australian-news.com.au/killing_softly.htm.

The reality is that multiple mistakes have been made in Australian policy towards aboriginal people. We are living with the consequences of those mistakes.

What none of the sites will admit is that possibly 70% of the population that identify as of aboriginal background are living in the country and getting on more or less OK.

Gene L

America is unfamiliar with this series of events...
can you post a link backing up what you're saying?

(OK, your links appeared about the same time I posted this)

The_Mouse

{Yawn} another one of these "total waste of time" question.

Let me ask you.... if today forensics found proof that your late great grandfather committed a crime when he was a young man, should you be charged with his crime and be sent to jail, and will you go willingly to serve the time for his crime?

Go get a life!

Thanks for the two points. Off to another question......

give me TRUTH

by your logic that would mean that your guilty to.

everyone today cant be held accountable for someone else's mistakes.

FORKY

WHY HAVEN'T YOU BEEN CHARGED WITH STUPIDITY? go away little man- namdam

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