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Aboriginals occupied Australia over 50 000 years ago. ... Aboriginal women were forced to work as domestic help and the men were placed in labour gangs. ... It is little wonder that the relations between the blacks and whites were so strained. ... In 1938 they held a national Day of Mourning on Australia Day to protest their treatment. ... White Australia and still believed they were superior and although a “lynch” mentality was no longer socially or politically correct, most believed Aborigines were to blame for their own demise. ... After the war there came a policy of assimilation where the aboriginal was to be removed from the reservations and absorbed into society. ...
Many aboriginal people did leave their lands and moved to cities and towns looking for work. ... The children of this generation were often stolen from them and placed in homes where they had a better chance of losing their aboriginal lifestyle. ...
Aboriginal people were beginning to fight back.
Approximate Word count = 754
Approximate Pages = 3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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