Genocide — a contested term Kociumbas — takes various forms and several are to be found in VDL. The Colonial Government responded with money, men and martial law. Ryan has argued that this was an Imperial strategy used elsewhere in the British Empire, and that it succeeded in ending the war Ryan, Convicts were recruited into these and other roving parties. Treatment of indigenous people can be seen to vary in accordance with their economic value to local employers.
Aborigines were most at risk when viewed as obstacles to progress. In places where their labour could be utilised — particularly as stockmen, or domestic servants — violence against Aboriginal people was to some degree constrained, and those who regularly employed Aborigines were less likely to participate in killing Palmer, This led easily into assimilation policy which from involved the systematic removal of light-skinned Aboriginal children to be brought up white — the Stolen Generations.
Real gains were slow in coming. Inclusion in the census population returns, equal wages — for some, any wages — land rights, enquiries into Black Deaths in Custody and Stolen Generations, all had to wait until later in the 20th century. It was in the 21st century that symbolic action was taken. This was in response to recommendations made by the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal Children from their Families, and in a context of growing public pressure.
Lorraine Peeters, one of the Stolen Generations, responded graciously presenting the gift of a glass coolamon created by the Balgo artist, Bai Bai Napangardi. Inside was a message of appreciation for the apology.
Together these two acts were designed to forge a pathway towards Reconciliation of the Nations. Just as once the convict stain prevented navel-gazing, the conquest of Aboriginal Nations provides a profound and lasting scar on society that has often been more comfortable to ignore. It is a sign of maturity that such difficult issues are now being confronted. A grand narrative of spectacular economic growth does not drown out Black History: it was predicated upon it.
Convict Australia is a story of sharp contrasts. The colonial cocktail mixed coercion with freedom, deprivation with opportunity, a state that was both strong and weak, economic miracle with calamity, black with white.
Colonists annihilated property rights and simultaneously lauded them. A self-styled civilised nation justified genocide. All this resulted from penal policy, but that policy was also at the service of British imperial ambitions, especially against the French.
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Imagine how you would feel if you welcomed strangers into your home and they never left. In fact, what would it be like if they took control of your house and made you relocate far away?
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