May homework #2

1. In chapter three the Aborigional population face a multitude of injustices such as, inequality, harsh treatment discrimination and much more. When the settlers came to Australia they were allowed to choose an area of land that they wanted where ever they pleased and the best land was given to the welthiest of the group. This created inequality from the start becuse they could be taking away land for the natives and the wealthier the person was the more land they got to take. This violates laws 1 and 17. Later on the natives wanted to rome freely though their country but the Eruopean settlers would not let them because they had taken over their property which violates another one of the human rights, number 12, which states that each person has freedom from interference with privacy, family, home and correspondence. Laws 7, 2 and 5 were soon violated when the Nyungar people were harshly sentenced to imprisonment and were bound in chains becuase they were caught spearing sheep and it was not accepeted to do so if you were not white. The most broken rule was numbers 1 and 7 which had to do with equality and in this case it was between the natives and the settlers.
2. This situation mirriors a situation in the US with native americans because we tryed to take their land just like the europeans in Australia. Another thing we did was give them less rights and put them in harsh situations of labor. Each country went through similar concequenes with these too. The natives were brutally punished with inequality before the law and boh the native americans and native australians lost land as a result of the new settlers.
3. The actions of the government were not morally justified because although people with mixed descent were teased, the childern underwent a shock that cannot be taken lightly. Just like foster children, the children of mixed descent lived a totally different life. Being taken away from your family would be counter rpoductive especially if the children were old enough to remember what happened to them when they were younger. The way the government went about treating the mixed children was not morally justified becuse of the hurt each child had to go through when they left their families for a new life. the position it put the child in was uncalled for and not good to the culture or the native people indivdually or as a whole.