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Re:Scramble for Africa by lucozade on Thursday January 31, 2019 @12:56PM (#19046950)
> The killings were legal till the 60's

That's an astonishing statement. Could you elaborate? The Aboriginal population has been treated heinously since European settlement but that's a, literally, incredible claim.

Re:Scramble for Africa by ganeshkrishnan on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:56PM (#19047603)
Have close friends who are married to Australians. It was common knowledge that out in the bush, it was quite frequent to shoot Aboriginals who would wander into your land. Australia had similar gun laws as US and it only changed after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996.

Also Aboriginals do not have the concept of land ownership and hence wouldn't understand the concept of trespassing, especially the kids.

Here is a list of known massacres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_of_Indigenou...

I spent some time in Queensland and the lawyers told me point blank that courts would hardly rule in favor of "Non Europeans" even for criminal/personal injury cases and that's why a huge percentage of civil/injury liabilities are settled out of court.

Re:Scramble for Africa by lucozade on Thursday January 31, 2019 @06:45PM (#19050221)
I see. So you have no basis for the claim.

I genuinely don’t see why you’d make something like that up when the truth is awful enough. But I’m sure you have your reasons.

Re:Scramble for Africa by ganeshkrishnan on Thursday January 31, 2019 @07:11PM (#19050405)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Australian_referendum_(...

They were counted in the population as "humans" only 5 years after this referendum. Besides the law was such that you could kill Intruders on your land and this invariably meant murdering the aboriginals