Captain James Cooke arrived on Australian shores in the year 1770. After charting the east coast, he officiated that Australia was uninhabited, desolate and belonged to no one, identifying Australia as terra nullius and acquiring it authoritatively for King George III . The savages, as Captain Cooke elucidated, were primitive, uneducated and uncivilised, roaming peripatetically, consuming what the land bared, and showed no motivation to cultivate, construct, or build upon their soil . As far as the European settlers were concerned, Aboriginal Australians were nothing more than a plague which lived among the fauna and flora , and if they couldn’t breed them out, they must be sanctioned, controlled and oppressed by the state to eliminate any possibility of them ever gaining power, or worse, acquiring their stolen land back. The bureaucratic control, present throughout the past 200 years, has demonstrated the Commonwealth Government’s actual intentions towards indigenous Australians. Although much has changed since European colonisation, indigenous treatment has only regressed negatively. And, even though indigenous welfare recently attained a voice in parliament, the guise which racially-targeted intervention has been implemented has been merely altered. Furthermore, despite the fact that there has been an emergence of individuals who are willing to defend the rights of the marginalised, the government has attempted rigorously to disadvantage, beleaguer, and eventually eradicate all Aboriginal rights.

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