'All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?!”
Jacinta Price is right about the positive impacts of Australia's colonising history that was built on a zero-slavery policy
Of course, some have taken issue with Senator Price’s gratitude, including Linda Burney, who labelled it “offensive” and “a betrayal of so many people’s stories”. Australia occupies approximately ten per cent of the world’s landmass with an abundance of natural resources. “You are to endeavour by every possible means to open an intercourse with the natives and to conciliate their affections, enjoining all our subjects to live in amity and kindness with them,” he said.
“The laws of will, of course, be introduced in South Wales, and there is one that I would wish to take place from the moment His Majesty’s forces take possession of the country: That there can be no slavery in a free land, and consequently no slaves.”On September 7, 1790, near Manly Cove, Phillip was speared in the shoulder by an Aboriginal man, Willemering.
Phillip’s orders to Captain Watkin Tench contained so many compassionate stipulations that Tench and his company, even after a second attempt, were unsuccessful. We might view Bass as a sort of colonial Fred Hollows – not that Hollows’ life’s work receives mention nowadays. This included restrictions on the carrying of weaponry and loitering, as well as abolishing the practice of “fighting and attacking each other on the plea of inflicting punishments on transgressors”.
In 1838, near Myall Creek, twelve stockmen and convict farmhands brutally murdered 28 Aborigines to avenge their slaughtered sheep and cattle. The massacre at Myall Creek is a case study that lends itself towards a recent thesis outlined by Dr Christopher Reynolds “It is but too clear that the only effectual remedy for this lamentable evil is an organised force adequate to keep both parties in check, and confine each to the limits which the Government shall sign.”
My assertion is that the Letters Patent of 1787 evolved such an ethos of leniency that they still affect our policies and attitudes towards Aboriginal Australians today. Measures to address, for instance, domestic violence and distasteful cultural practises in Aboriginal communities have largely failed, predominantly because the Commonwealth refuses to accept that Aborigines themselves, not the state, must take responsibility for their families and their future.
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