Impact Of Australian Government's Assimilation Policy On Aboriginal Children
The Australian Government's assimilation policy was a policy of absorbing Aboriginal people into white society through the process of removing children from their families. The idea of this policy was to breed out and abolish the aboriginal society and to assimilate them into the white community. The impact that this policy had on the indigenous Australians was very negative as many children were forcibly taken from their families.
One way the assimilation policy impacted the aboriginals was by ‘stealing’ the aboriginal children. These children were named ‘the stolen generation’. The children were taken from their parents and sent to mission schools and foster homes. Here they were told to forget their heritage and everything they knew and were taught the english language and were forced to adapt to the white ways of life. An example of this was a 17 year old girl by the name Lorna Cubillo. She was one of the 100,000 aboriginal children removed from their families. She was taken away from her family to a foster home, she was later sexualy abused and never saw her family again. …show more content…
The Australian assimilation policy went against nearly all of the aboriginals human rights.
Some of the main human rights abused by the assimilation policy include the right to own things and no slavery. For example Olive from the movie ‘the rabbit proof fence’ was used as a cheap slave labourer after she escaped from her mission school. This was very negative as she was often sexually assaulted and treated poorly. This went against the human rights law of ‘no slavery’ where no one has the right to make anyone their slave. Also the human right ‘the right to your own things’ which allows everyone to own things and not have them taken without good reason. This was abused as the The australians took their best land having a bad effect on the aboriginals as they were forced inland into the
desert.
The Australian assimilation policy caused a lot of the aboriginal culture to become lost. One reason for this was when the aboriginal children (stolen generation) were sent to the mission schools and foster homes they were forced to forget their culture, language, history and made to learn the ways of the white australians. For example Molly, Daisy and gracie in the movie ‘the rabbit proof fence.’ where they were taken from their families and taken to the mission school, they were constrained from speaking their language and forced to learn english. Another was by pushing them inland on to the desert and and away from their sacred land including their dream paths.
Overall these were only some of the ways the assimilation policy impacted the aboriginals, all of which were negative. The aboriginal people got absolutely no good out out of this policy, which was purely for the white people’s benefit. An example of this is the stolen generation, the human rights and the aboriginal culture that was taken from them. The Australian Assimilation Policy therefore was only for the English people’s benefit.
One way the assimilation policy impacted the aboriginals was by ‘stealing’ the aboriginal children. These children were named ‘the stolen generation’. The children were taken from their parents and sent to mission schools and foster homes. Here they were told to forget their heritage and everything they knew and were taught the english language and were forced to adapt to the white ways of life. An example of this was a 17 year old girl by the name Lorna Cubillo. She was one of the 100,000 aboriginal children removed from their families. She was taken away from her family to a foster home, she was later sexualy abused and never saw her family again. …show more content…
The Australian assimilation policy went against nearly all of the aboriginals human rights.
Some of the main human rights abused by the assimilation policy include the right to own things and no slavery. For example Olive from the movie ‘the rabbit proof fence’ was used as a cheap slave labourer after she escaped from her mission school. This was very negative as she was often sexually assaulted and treated poorly. This went against the human rights law of ‘no slavery’ where no one has the right to make anyone their slave. Also the human right ‘the right to your own things’ which allows everyone to own things and not have them taken without good reason. This was abused as the The australians took their best land having a bad effect on the aboriginals as they were forced inland into the
desert.
The Australian assimilation policy caused a lot of the aboriginal culture to become lost. One reason for this was when the aboriginal children (stolen generation) were sent to the mission schools and foster homes they were forced to forget their culture, language, history and made to learn the ways of the white australians. For example Molly, Daisy and gracie in the movie ‘the rabbit proof fence.’ where they were taken from their families and taken to the mission school, they were constrained from speaking their language and forced to learn english. Another was by pushing them inland on to the desert and and away from their sacred land including their dream paths.
Overall these were only some of the ways the assimilation policy impacted the aboriginals, all of which were negative. The aboriginal people got absolutely no good out out of this policy, which was purely for the white people’s benefit. An example of this is the stolen generation, the human rights and the aboriginal culture that was taken from them. The Australian Assimilation Policy therefore was only for the English people’s benefit.