Aboriginal Australians—have lived on the continent for over 50,000 years. Today, there are 250 distinct language groups spread throughout Australia.
Aboriginal Australians are split into two groups: Aboriginal peoples, who are related to those who already inhabited Australia when Britain began colonizing the island in 1788, and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who descend from residents of the Torres Strait Islands, a group of islands that is part of modern-day Queensland, Australia.
Br*tish settlement :ukkk:
When British settlers began colonizing Australia in 1788, between 750,000 and 1.25 Aboriginal Australians are estimated to have lived there. Soon, epidemics ravaged the island’s indigenous people, and British settlers seized Aboriginal lands.
Though some Aboriginal Australians did resist—up to 20,000 indigenous people died in violent conflict on the colony’s frontiers—most were subjugated by massacres and the impoverishment of their communities as British settlers seized their lands.
The Stolen Generations :aus-delenda-est:
Between 1910 and 1970, government policies of assimilation led to between 10 and 33 percent of Aboriginal Australian children being forcibly removed from their homes. These “Stolen Generations” were put in adoptive families and institutions and forbidden from speaking their native languages. Their names were often changed.
The struggle continues :red-fist:
Today, about three percent of Australia’s population has Aboriginal heritage. Aboriginal Australians still struggle to retain their ancient culture and fight for recognition—and restitution—from the Australian government.
The state of Victoria is currently working toward a first-of-its-kind treaty with its Aboriginal population that would recognize Aboriginal Australians’ sovereignty and include compensation. However, Australia itself has never made such a treaty, making it the only country in the British Commonwealth not to have ratified a treaty with its First Nations peoples.
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Someone help me frame a question during a Q&A session with execs tomorrow. It’s supposedly anonymous but I am using a burner account anyway to avoid getting my ass fired. Backstory is that our company made record profits last quarter, paid out shareholder dividends, paid out 7 figure executive salaries including to the failson CEO, all the while asking employees to take an annual payfreeze in December (which is when the pay raises go into effect)
"‘What is the rationale behind paying out shareholder dividends and 7 figure executive bonuses despite asking your workers to take a pay freeze during a quarter where ____ Communications made millions more during Q1 this year than last year?’
I can word this better but I want to concern troll it hard enough that it has people questioning it themselves, I of course don’t expect a real answer