Modern land of Australia Assignment 2022

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200425 ECONOMICS: ASSIGNMENT 2: Q3 2019

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
The colonisation of the British settlers and aboriginal history..................................................3
Analysis of the issues from the perspective of the Aboriginals.................................................3
A comprehensive course of action.............................................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
Reference....................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
Australia is one of the lands in the world where British settlers invaded to make a place for
their exiles. However, the cost of the invasion into the new land was the disruption of the
native’s lives of Australia. The British settlers invaded the land around 2 centuries ago and
since then, the rights of the native Australians have been disregarded. Starting from the
imposition of law to exploit their resources, their rights have been ignored. This paper sheds
light around the thesis statement and discusses the problem faced by the aboriginals of
Australia. The paper also furnishes the gains that have been lost by the Australian economy
due to the exclusion of the native people of Australia.
The colonisation of the British settlers and aboriginal history
The modern land of Australia which has one of the largest economies of the world had
around 500 groups of native people. Two main groups of the native population included
aboriginals and the Torres Strait Islanders. Apart from that, there existed another small group
of native Australians as well. Alford and Muir (2004) noted that around 2 centuries ago when
the British settlers started to arrive at the land, the population of the native people across all
the groups were around 800000. British settlers were much more sophisticated in all the
aspects and hence it was not a tough job for them to intimidate the native people of Australia.
They forcefully took away the lands from the aboriginals issuing the wrong decree. Apart
from that, in some cases, British settlers also went in confrontation with the native people as
well. According to Anderson et al. (2006), the native lifestyle in that land at that time was
very simple which differed significantly from the lifestyles of the British settlers. Soon, with
the increase in the number of settlers in the land, a newly developed and powerful economy
started to emerge in the land. Since then, the aboriginals and the islanders of the Torres Strait
have been kept away from the mainstream economy. Consequently, the number of native
people reduced over the years and the surviving people found it very tough to make ends
meet.
Analysis of the issues from the perspective of the Aboriginals
The surviving native people of Australia were completely excluded from the main economy
of the land. Their means of income was limited and less developed. These have continued till
now and hence the massive development of the Australian economy has failed to influence
the lifestyle and the living standard of the native Australians. Altman (2009) stated that one