Problems faced by Australian aborigines

As we all know, Australia is an immigrant country. 1770 was "discovered" by the British navigator Captain james cook and became a British colony. It is generally believed that Australia is a "young" country. However, people had lived and lived in Australia for a long time before European colonists came to Australia. About 50,000 to 70,000 years ago, Australian aborigines gradually moved into Australia from Africa or Asia (with different academic views) and gradually dispersed throughout Australia. They are all the earliest residents of Australia, belonging to nomadic people, with no fixed settlement, scattered on the Australian mainland and islands. Before the Europeans occupied Australia, there were about 500 tribes here. Unfortunately, with the European immigration and colonization from 65438 to 0788, Australian aborigines began to be marginalized.

The first is that their land has been deprived. 179 1 year, the British colonial authorities began to "distribute" land to exiled prisoners who had served their sentences, and began the process of depriving indigenous people of their land.

Followed by elimination and "assimilation". The conflict between aborigines and colonists led to the death of tens of thousands of aborigines, among which Tasmanian aborigines became extinct. In this process, in 190 1 year, Australia's colonies were changed to states and the Australian Federation was established, but the aborigines were excluded from the scope of the census and they were classified as "animal groups". 19 10, the Commonwealth of Australia adopted a policy, which stipulated that the authorities could take mixed-race indigenous children from indigenous families at will and concentrate them in nurseries and other places on the grounds of improving their lives. 1937, the Australian authorities adopted an official policy of forced assimilation of mixed-race indigenous people. These policies have led to a continuous decline in the number of indigenous people. 1788, when British colonists began to immigrate to Australia, it was estimated that there were about 750,000 aborigines in Australia at that time. From 65438 to 0933, there were only about 70,000 aborigines in Australia. By 2006, many years after the policy of racial discrimination stopped, the total indigenous population in Australia was about 450,000, accounting for only 2.4% of the total population in Australia.

Finally, the living environment is bad. 27% of the indigenous people live in remote areas and remote islands. They belong to the poorest class in Australia, and their illiteracy rate, unemployment rate and crime rate are higher than those in other communities. The average life expectancy of indigenous people is lower than that of non-indigenous people 17 years old, and the infant mortality rate is also higher. In short, due to historical and political reasons, the issue of indigenous people has always been one of the most important problems that plague Australia.