Aboriginals - Non Australian, Non human

Much has been said and written about the arrival of Europeans to the continent of “Terra Australis”, and the colonialisation of the land commonly known as Australia, by the British empire, which was done by force, where currently all the land of this country is owned by The Crown (Queen Elizabeth II).

The people who lived on the land of Australia, were named by the English empire as Aboriginals, where the prefix ab- is a formal element occurring in loanword from Latin where its meaning is - “away from” or “not”, e.g. abnormal meaning not normal, where the term referred to the people who were labeled by the English were seen to be not original as denoted by the phrase “Ab-original”.

To make matters worse, in the early days they were head hunted like animals, and a head count was tallied up to see who had the highest number of kills, before morning tea.

Fast forward to the formation of what Australians (all) should know as the Federation, with a document from (1900) known as the ‘Constitution’, where Section 127 was struck out read:

“127. In reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth , or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted.”

Only in 1967 a referendum was held in order to change the ‘Constitution’ to include ‘aboriginals’ in a population count.

A film that has just been released in Melbourne cinema called Utopia, by John Pilger, highlights a disturbing policy and mentality of the people in control of power in this country.

The West Australian mining magnate Lang Hancock [whose daughter Gina Rinehart, is considered as Australia’s richest person, approximate current value of $20 billion, depending on which corporate media outlet one listens to] had the mentality of genocide, with the quote given a reporter regarding the ‘Aboriginal Problem’

Lang Hancock (1984):

Quote:

"Those that have been assimilated into.. you know.. earning good living, and earning wages amongst the civilised areas,that have been accepted into society, they have accepted society, and can handle society, I'd leave them well alone. The ones that are no good to themselves, and can't accept things, the half casts, and this is where most of the trouble comes, I would dope the water up so they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future and that would solve the problem."

The corporate media recently announced that ‘aboriginals’ are recognised by (city) councils, but in reality, (city) councils are corporate entities,  not part of any legitimate government structure, but that is somewhat a bit of a taboo to report on.

Anyone today who calls the native Australians 'Aboriginals' is confirming them as 'non-originals'.

Is Rinehart’s policy similar to that of her father’s?

Was the whole mining boom - $4,000 (per week) jobs for ‘lazy’ Australians a reality for the Victorians who wanted to go but did not?

Did those jobs really exist for Aussies, or only for cheap overseas labourers?

Another fact is that native Australians were also regarded as flora/fauna, by the English.

Are they still seen as that today?

As always, only actions will speak louder than words and more to the point the truth.