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That's a grossly incorrect understanding of history.

Please put a nice spin on this Australian history of countless massacres of the indigenous people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ma...ustralians

Australian history of gun violence is on a par with America's.

Jesus Christ - you get your information from Wikipedia?? And ignore the neutrality notice as well??

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Just because massacres took place doesn't define the history. The policy of the age was assimilation, and people who were different from you were feared, they were labelled as belonging to "other races", and there was a very primitive understanding of the cause and communicability of disease.


Furthermore the Commonwealth of Australia wasn't founded at that time - it was founded in 1901. There was no violence preceding it.

Overtime we have understood that we (the people who came to Australia) misunderstood the Indigenous cultures, and failed to acknowledge them properly. Which is why the constitution needs to be amended to recognise the Indigenous people as the first people of our land. In my view the word "race" should be removed completely from our constitution as well, since we now know there are not different "races" of humans.

Not a single one of the ancestors of my bloodline is a convict. So I'm a bit surprised you don't understand that Australia wasn't founded by convicts. There were plenty of convicts that were set free and are the ancestors for other Australians - and most non-Indigenous Australians who have Australian ancestors stretching back to the 1800's would have some convict "blood" in their ancestry - but there are those of us who don't.