More than 210 years after British imperialists declared the continent terra nullius and colonized it aboriginal Australians continue to suffer, Treatment of the indigenous people during this time can only be described, at best, as sad. Indigenous communities are now the most disadvantaged in the country. History has seen a self-determining, semi-nomadic race of hunters and gatherers transformed into dependent, settled, unskilled laborers denied their fundamental rights.
The invasion began with the first settlement in 1788. New South Wales was far from terra nullius, an empty unoccupied la…
