1788 - The unresolved Human Rights Abuses of both Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Australians by the British Government

There should be a differentiation made between the decision makers in 1788 and the human beings they dumped here.

My family, both sides are 'First Fleeters', but what many people forget is that the great majority of those on board the First Fleet and subsequent Fleets did NOT CHOSE to come to Australia, they were in fact dumped in Australia by those British Decision Makers. 

Not a stolen generation - but an unwanted and abandoned generation. These 'convicts' were torn from their culture and heritage which wasn't only 'British Christian' heritage and not only were the 'convicts' punished in this inhumane manner but so were their families in their countries of origin and their subsequent generations born here sentenced to the same punishment denied their rightful place within their families, culture and heritage.

I believe that once non-Aboriginal Australians get past the 'ego' thing that hangs on their convict ancestory and realise that the greatest ever Human Rights Abuses on the face of the planet were committed by the British Government against both the Non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal people, the sooner we can quickly come to an appropriate resolution.

Instead of aiming our advocacy at the current Australian Government we, the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people of this land now known as Australia, should go arm in arm as victims of the British Government and the regime of the day and demand restitution. 

Sadly our Australian systems of Government are merely reflections of the British system and therefore they are still perpetuating inhumane treatment of all those deemed lesser in the value system of the British i.e. Aboriginal Australians, non-Aboriginal Australians and refugees. 

How can non-Aboriginal Australians ever even begin to understand the horrific nature of what was done to Aboriginal Australians by the British (and subsequent Australian) Governments when we can't even deal with our own generational trauma from our beginnings as the lowest of low and the most unwanted of human beings? 

Can you imagine if the refugees of today weren't actually fleeing their country by choice but literally shoved off the shoreline of their country of origin because the the unwanted trash of a society and being dumped here? 

We need to deal with our own trauma to firstly gain even the slightest insight into what was stolen from Aboriginal Australians i.e. not just their land but their family and their history, and secondly so that we can objectively assess the actions of the British Government in 1788 and work together as the human beings we are to find and demand a solution from the British Government.