Australians should know this

The refusal to acknowledge the rudimentary state of Australian Aboriginal life pre 1788 is a gross disservice to those who identify as being members of that group.

Unfortunately in general those who could be showing those members that the arrival of the First Fleet was a huge benefit to their ancestors refuse to do so.

Writings from the time indicate that in general the 1788 locals did not appreciate the chance to advance from the Stone Age that had been their life style for twenty two million days.

Only one Aboriginal took up the Governor’s offer of seed and equipment to grow crops.

A few others worked on ships and readily took up the bad habits of their workmates.

There was no invasion because that means opposition to the landings which did not happen. When Cook had arrived near Sydney in 1770 Banks called the locals cowards because they continually ran away from the English and hence could not be communicated with. Later, at what is now Cooktown, the locals were braver and interaction resulted although not necessarily good because one local, having been stopped from taking (stealing) some equipment began a fire to express his anger.

As time went on after the 1788 landing and female locals became pregnant because they readily mated with folk who offered clothes, food and a roof the offspring were provided a nursery because the baby would have probably been killed if born in an Aboriginal camp. This practise was why my great grandmother was given to a white couple camped nearby while on their way to the South Australian goldfields and they took it to the wife’s mum to bring up. Who would want to acknowledge such a history. My daughter would have Uni paid for if she could.

The Stolen Generation can be easily identified as false with just a little bit of reading of the descriptions of Aboriginal life where old men took young girls as wives and hence separating the girls from the family protected them.

It is easy to see that many Aboriginals continued to follow their old ways in the movies made a hundred or more years later that can be seen on YouTube.

Books to read from the time of the First Fleet are available for free on gutenberg.net.

Stop believing lies Australia, learn the truth about the folk who were here when the Gov arrived.