
Rights for Aborigines
''We cannot help but wonder why it has taken the white Australians just on 200 years to recognise us as a race of people'' Bill Onus, 1967
Aboriginal people were the original landowners in Australia, yet this was easily forgotten by Europeans settling this old continent. Labelled as a primitive and dying race, by the end of the nineteenth century most Aborigines were denied the right to vote, to de...
''We cannot help but wonder why it has taken the white Australians just on 200 years to recognise us as a race of people'' Bill Onus, 1967
Aboriginal people were the original landowners in Australia, yet this was easily forgotten by Europeans settling this old continent. Labelled as a primitive and dying race, by the end of the nineteenth century most Aborigines were denied the right to vote, to de...