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We should never confuse the history of a continent with the history of a nation. 

 

The purpose of this site is to provide historical information – a “truth telling” that is being erased from history and the education of our youth.  

 

Australia as a nation commenced on 1 January 1901 which was arrived at by the union of the British Colonies governing the continent.  Australia was not created by the Aboriginal hordes.  The Aboriginal peoples were swept along by the tide of British colonisation, modernity and the founding of the Australian nation.  Colonisation by one of the imperial powers of the time was inevitable.

 

The British treated their colonies in vastly different ways, both across different regions and within the same colonies over time. None of them were uniformly governed or similar in character; the British government occasionally took notice but generally was not involved in their governance.

 

The British initially created its settlements in Australia with penal colonies.  Those penal colonies developed into farming and agricultural settlements that would spread across the country.  During this colonial expansion, land was ceded, relinquished or acquiesced by the Aboriginal hordes. 

 

The Aboriginal activist now reviles that the land was invaded. The historical facts clearly show the passage of settlement.  The British and the Australian law determines the land settled.  Whichever terms is used, the only certainty is that the Aboriginal peoples were brought under control and governance of the British by acquiescence and/or otherwise by force.

 

Aboriginals or other races may have inhabited the continent for thousands of years prior to 1 January 1901 but this does not represent the history of Australia.  Exploration and research has been, and is, being conducted by archaeologists and anthropologists, listening to the stories of the remaining Aborigines, to build a theoretical “picture” of the life and times of the stone age peoples who inhabited this continent. 

 

Indigenous culture that developed on this continent long before the creation of the Australian nation and without any influence from it is NOT part of our common heritage. It is only the heritage of that minority of peoples within the nation that identify as Aboriginal.

 

And yet through cultural sanctification and mythologizing, Aboriginal culture is now perversely being forced into part of our common heritage relying on the acceptance by Australians through some forced sense of fabricated guilt or remorse.  

 

Aboriginal culture does not enrich the life of our country.  Australia did not incorporate any aspects of aboriginal law, religion or social relations into its institutional structures.  Those things that may be a precious part of the heritage of the people of Aboriginal descent but for most of the rest of us, they are survivalist, primitive and often brutal and mysterious, especially those parts that are off limits to uninitiated men’s and women’s secret business.

 

Aboriginal cultural life involved limited human rights, religious intolerance, disease and absolute poverty. Other negative aspects include domestic oppression (usually of women and children), violence, clan/tribal warfare, infanticide, senicide, poor care of the environment and considerable restriction on artistic freedom of expression.

 

None of the land has been devoted to the practise of traditional cultural like hunting and gathering which is all but defunct even in the most remote of remote communities.  Nor will the land be used for the practise of traditional religions – many of which practices are in direct violation of Australian laws and human rights.  The self-dependent kinship-based societies largely ended across Australia by the 1940s.

 

Many cling to the myth that authentic aboriginals should be allowed to live a traditional life.  The hunter gatherer societies with animistic cultures had existed throughout the world.  In the 1950’s anthropologists witnessed and recorded the remnants of Aboriginal band society and faithfully recorded the last of tribal life, just as other anthropologists were also doing in the tropical forests of the Congo witnessing the Forest Pygmies and the desert scrublands of the Kalahari witnessing the Bushmen.  The remote and very remote communities are NOT hunter gatherer societies but are welfare dependant/mendicant societies which have no intention of returning to a traditional lifestyle.

 

Much of the history written about Aboriginal groups has in fact been disguised moral autobiography, and political posturing, more so than the history of the Aborigines themselves.

 

The authority of the elders left generations ago, for a host of reasons. The moment aboriginal women and young men gained access to stronger power, in the protection of the Missionaries, they quickly escaped the cruel powers of old men.           

 

In the last 250 years, the Aboriginal people have been swept forward through 10,000 years of evolutionary civilisation through a history of invasion/settlement to protectionism and segregation, to assimilation up to a policy setting that appears to be ever more confused somewhere between assimilation, reconciliation and/or some element of self-determination.

 

We appear to have set a situation in Australia which supports the keeping of one group of people beyond the reach of the modern world and yet the majority of the Aboriginal peoples live in that modern world.  We appear to have created a race of people that is not a race at all, but rather distant or very distant descendants of a particular race who in all likelihood do not practice any traditional Aboriginal rites or practices. This desire to protect culture contains a major flaw, it assumes a stagnant (and unchangeable) society whose needs are unchanging, but that society has already irrevocably changed.

 

People of aboriginal descent live as free as any other Australian; free to pursue  whatever life they desire within the broad bounds of Australian law. That is the long accepted settlement - it is the reality and a very decent one.

 

People from all over the planet have come to live in Australia as a free people in a country operating within the British common law and parliamentary system.  They did not come here to live under the aboriginal law or aboriginal life and would not have chosen to. They came to live in a country of opportunity, modernity, freedom, egalitarianism and pluralism.