This post was crafted by Aviroanth Venkatesh at the request of Rock & Stone Music & Publishing.
I remember my very first time thinking of my grandparents and all their family in India. I think of how delighted they must have been for the progress and innovation of modern society.
Aborigines were removed by the British government and brought to Australia in 1837. India was once home to 13.5 million Aborigines. They were the first people to have built urban dwellings, a knowledge-driven system of governance, the first society to take education seriously, the first to publish scientific journals, and many other things. They gave the world a revolutionary worldview based on traditionalism, moral realism, and community. All that was destroyed, systematically, by the British.
AUSTRALIA
Colonial Australia has not only dismantled social, educational, and agricultural institutions but has also replicated ineffectual policies that were used in Britain. Today, for the Aboriginal population, these policies yield true catastrophe. In fact, the Aboriginal population in Australia seems to be suffering more now than it did in the 1960s. Several large parts of the country have, in fact, become thoroughly racist. At that time, we had a few positive outcomes from colonization and social-cultural exchange in Australia. Some Aboriginal activist groups have now experienced being born again thanks to the opportunities that have now, for the first time, begun to be available to them.
.
HOW IS POSSIBLE TO CHANGE IN SOCIETY
In recent years, the policy of "settlement" of Aborigines in Australia has actually occurred in many areas in which indigenous territories are being planned in Australia. In particular, a great number of residential suburbs are now being developed in areas where it is very little or no inhabited Aboriginal land; they will be places for people to build their future.
This is not the only way of changing the aboriginal population of Australia. Also, there is an ongoing policy of assimilation under which aboriginal children can be forcibly removed from their families. Currently, Australian society has 39 federal and stateless indigenous people. This is a huge number, the largest in the world. In addition, these federal and stateless Aborigines are unable to attend school in Australia. But there have been some examples in Australian histories, such as the case of Helena Bromwich, and Australia is now considering paying increased assistance to the Aboriginal Australian people, mostly by starting up a residential school for Aboriginal students.
The Australian Federal Government is also looking into implementing affirmative action, which means that awards like the National Disability Insurance Scheme, which has its origins in indigenous Australia, will be actively included. This will help these young people to have more opportunities. In fact, it is possible to point out that, in some important cases, some authorities seem to understand what those of us who live here have always known: that if these young Aboriginal people were still able to practice their culture, they would be able to build new lives and connections with their families and the societies around them.
###
