AUSTRALIANA Aboriginal Immigration
The tone of Australian race relations in the last two centuries was set by the basic conflict over land and the assumption of cultural superiority by the newcomers from Britain. The brief history follows the conflict as the frontier moved across Australia, and the emergence of the twin ideas of “assimilation” and “homogeneity” which culminated in the delusory ideal of a developing egalitarian White Australia in the late 1940s. The growth of the European ethnic minorities and the White Australia. Australia is maturing into a plural society in which frontier code of ‘mateship” and “fair play” is gradually being broadened to include Aborigines and other non-Europeans.
History of race relations, racism; Aboriginal protest, political organisations, FCAATSI; land rights, equal pay.