Aborigeenid (Inglise keeles)
The sacred sites and
other land which had belonged to aboriginal people for thousands of years were simply taken from
them. If they did not leave peacefully then the new settlers used force to get them to leave. Many
aboriginal people were killed during the settlement of Australia. The aborigines that were left were
made to live on in special areas, reservations, that the government set aside for them. One of these was
at Lake Tyers, Victoria. Many church groups set up missions, to both look after the aborigines, and to
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convert them to Christianity.
With the help of aboriginal lawyers, aboriginal Australians have battled to get some of their land
back. In 1976, the Australian government agreed that aboriginal people have rights to their tribal
territories, and some land was given back. On 3 June, 1992, the High Court of Australia said that the
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