What Happened To The Rights Of Different Groups During The Australian Federation

During the federation the rights for both the Indigenous Australian’s and the Chinese immigrants were different. They were both a subject to racism and discrimination due to their race. In this essay I’m going to be answer the following question; Contrast what happened to the rights of different groups because of Federation? This question will be answered below;

For the Indigenous Australians living in Australia at the time of Federation was a hard thing because they didn’t have many rights, if any. It was hard for them to do things that most other white people do on an everyday basis. For example, they were not given the right to vote and have the same rights as white Australians in 1965. Also in 1908 elderly Australians were given the
As well as not been included in the census the indigenous children were taken from their families up until the early 1970’s, which was a disgrace and most Australians are ashamed about it today. These children were known as the stolen generation.

The Aboriginal people had it tough after federation because every white man and women would judge them in different ways. They would have been kicked out of their lands, where they may have lived for many years and they needed to find a new place to live. This would have made it hard for them to adapt to the new environment in which they lived in, whether that was the city a little town or still out in the outback. They had to try to adapt to the white/British way of life because they had been told and forced to by the British people who had taken over their land.

Another way the Aboriginal people were affected in a major way was the new diseases that the British people had brought to
It was very hard for the Chinese people to be allowed to come to Australia after Federation because of the White Australia Policy.

It was also very hard for them because the native Chinese language is Mandarin which is one of the hardest languages to learn. It would also be very hard for them to be accepted because Mandarin is written in symbols not in letters like most other languages that they would have probably been tested on. So it would have been near impossible for the chinese people to pass the test which would allow them to be let into Australia because most of them would not have been taught another language and because of this it would be impossible for them to write their answers.

However, after the Second World War a lot of new immigrants were let into Australia because of Australia wanted to boost the population again and they need more people to work in different area’s. For the Chinese people if they have lived in Australia for more than 15 years after 1957 they were allowed to participate in a test to see if they could get their Australian