Critical Analysis of Australian Policy and Historical Events in Relation to Indigenous Australian Peoples

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Critical analysis of Australian policy and historical events in relation to Indigenous
Australian peoples
Before 1967, Indigenous Australian peoples were discriminated. Their resources were
taken by the British colonizers. This initiated events that took place in this period of time ware
federation of the constitution. Indigenous Australians were initiating the referendum meant to
fight for their rights and freedom. Several events took place in Australia that led to the freedom
of Aboriginal and the entire Indigenous Australian people. Aboriginal were indigenous
Australians who migrated from Africa and stayed in the country for decades. Their cultural
practice was semi-nomads and moved from one place to another to look for pasture (Broome &
Broome, 2010). The British took advantage of their cultural and forced them to move from the
wetland and moved to the semi-arid area (Hinton, 2012).
The spread of the Europeans increased due to their pastoral occupation leading to the rise
of industries. It made the visibility of indigenous lifeless visible since the indigenous were
marginalized and were denied any right in their own country by British colony (Gammage,
2014). In this paper, I will reflect on how social, historical forces explicated knowledge of others
and self. In this, I will extend my arguments on reflecting on Australian policy on basis of
Australian people. I will reflect on how indigenous Australian is related to their rational
approaches. Then lastly I will give the differences that exist between the non-indigenous
Australians and indigenous ones.
In 1901, the Australia constitution came into effect that denied the Aboriginal peoples any
right and classified them as second class people. Aboriginal peoples started a resistance against
British settlers who invaded their land and taken their recourses. In 1914, some 800 Aboriginal

armed themselves despite the resistance of some Indigenous Australian peoples working in the
army. This resistance led to the loss of life for many Europeans and visiting Indians after an
attack by Aboriginal peoples who were hunters and gatherers. It continued until the start of
Second World War (Hiatt, 2016). Post-1967, the recruitment of the indigenous into the military
weakened the resistance of the Aboriginal movement (Cohen, 2013).
The regulation restricted the Aboriginal movement; they became laborers who were not
free and were paid low wages as compared to another indigenous working in the military. The
Indigenous Australian peoples had no right to exercise their democratic right due to the
restriction by the Australia federal government until the 1940s when those who served in the
military were extended this right to vote in the national election but restricted other indigenous
including Aboriginal Australians. This right was entirely given to the Australian indigenous by
the Menzies government which included all indigenous in voting in the Commonwealth election.
After 1967, this period was marked by the breakthrough of Indigenous Australian
people discrimination and colonization since the state was granted full participation of
indigenous right to vote. In 1968, Australian referendum was held and passed with 90% votes
that allowed the indigenous to be included in the Commonwealth parliament, to make laws
(Samantha, 2012). As a result, Australia had become a no-one land when Europeans occupied
the area. It made the subject companies continue mining in the property belonging to Aboriginal,
indigenous people. The Aboriginal termed themselves as foreigners in their own country. There
is an unresolved relationship between the indigenous and non-indigenous.
The Anzac day policy is a national day for commemorations, but the non-indigenous
people do not want to include the aboriginal people killed by the white settlers. Torres Strait