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Rather than embrace or even encourage existing traditional ‘family’ culture, it was the goal of Britain to assimilate Indigenous Australians (Armitage, 1995) whilst expanding its Empire. Guided by a belief system that advocated theories of racial hierarchy and evolution, Britain chose to condemn and disregard the venerable systems of the Australian Aboriginal peoples. This derogatory attitude towards the Indigenous peoples of Australia is reflected in the writings of British writer Anthony Trollope, “Of the Australian black man we may certainly say that he has to go. That he should perish without unnecessary suffering should be the aim of all who are concerned in the matter” (Trollope, 1873). However, it was not this mentality alone that impacted
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