The Forum > Article Comments > Invasion Day race-baiting does nothing to help Indigenous disadvantage > Comments
Invasion Day race-baiting does nothing to help Indigenous disadvantage : Comments
By John Slater, published 28/1/2016A day founded on the idea of national unity is increasingly being used by race baiters as a platform to preach collective guilt and perseverate in reciting historical grievance.
- Pages:
- ‹
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- Page 7
- 8
- 9
- ›
- All
I should clarify that I do think it's very likely that a range of killings took place, from single to multiple murders. After all, invasions provoke responses, and those responses provoke further killings - that's in the very nature of invasions, whether by the Romans, or the Normans, or by the Muslims, or any other colonial powers.
But where, and how often, and how violent - these have to be demonstrated. Without evidence, I would suspect that, for all that, there were massacres out beyond the reach of government in all states. There are many factors to take into account, the perceived value of the land to pastoralists, the population recovery from drought, the pull-factor of ration stations and missions, etc.
Still thinking this all through, with more factors to consider, after fifty years :)
Joe