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Old 7th Oct 2013, 13:01
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I beg to differ. Australia was not founded on conquest, nor terrorism. Our early settlers didn't arrive and immediately seek out the Aboriginal camps and slaughter the elders and their families, and then warn the remaining tribespeople that the same would happen to them if they didn't buckle under to white peoples demands. Neither did we impose taxes on the Abos to support our style of Govt.

The Aboriginals were largely left in peace and it was only the raiding parties of the Abo's, seeking to grab easy food, that brought about conflict. There were a few isolated massacres of Abo's, but these were not settler policy - nor were the individuals who led those massacres, supported by the other whites - and the whites who did carry out those few isolated massacres were, in the main, condemned by many other whites.
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