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There are about 10,000 people with aboriginal heritage presently living in Tasmania https://www.aboriginalartonline.com/...s/tasmania.php and Tasmanian settler massacres were largely invented, based on "tangled footnotes" '
I'm surprised a Kiwi would be telling you this massacre/slavery story and presenting it as truth.
I would take any article on the pre federation treatment of aboriginal Australian's with a grain of salt, regardless of who the Author is.
There are about 10,000 people with aboriginal heritage presently living in Tasmania https://www.aboriginalartonline.com/...s/tasmania.php and Tasmanian settler massacres were largely invented, based on "tangled footnotes" '
I'm surprised a Kiwi would be telling you this massacre/slavery story and presenting it as truth.
I have no idea why a New Zealander tour guide would be telling me such stuff over a tour group dinner; he has been been there for longer than me; so I can't really challenge him on that. Admittedly, i only spent up to 2 weeks in Tasmania but I didn't really saw any Aboriginal communities there either, so at that time, i could not debate this with him.
Aboriginal people don't all live in aboriginal communities, most live and work in towns and cities just like everyone else. Someone (a youth worker from the Gubbi Gubbi LG) once told me it was about 70% with about 25% in remote rural areas. AFAIK Brisbane City has about 47,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
Aboriginal people don't all live in aboriginal communities, most live and work in towns and cities just like everyone else. Someone (a youth worker from the Gubbi Gubbi LG) once told me it was about 70% with about 25% in remote rural areas. AFAIK Brisbane City has about 47,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
That is great! I have noticed Aboriginals blue-colar workers in brisbane area, but more around the outlaying area; I may have been mistaken, but there seems to be more self-segregration among the older generation, whereas the younger generation seems far more integrated; in any case, whatever did happened on Tasmania is in the past and irreversible.
I hope the young bright indigenous student I met is doing better now; i sometimes look back at what he has told me and i know that my life has been in some ways better than what he has gone through.
Agreed, it's so easy for history to be revised and it's always written by the victors.
Even if there is no conscious revisioning of history, debating what was most responsible for the decline in the Tasmanian Aboriginal population seems a moot point. If most died due to diseases brought by European settlers or transported convicts (another group who had a very tough time in Tasmania prior to self government in the mid 1850s) rather than armed conflict, the end result is still the same.
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