The unabashed cultural and racial ethnocentrism as in the case of Africa was followed in Australia also in the initial period of contact the policies were more cautious and exploratory the grading ideology was an equation of human with Christianity and with white culture . In Australia the first phase treated all nature as British subjects and as such they were expected to behave according to the normative patterns of British citizens the natives didn’t meekly submit to the policies of making human out of them although official they were treated as English subject no white British subject coned be hung for killing an Australia aborigine Two recent became of the white and aboriginal contact were a) The creation of a hybrid race by miscegenation b) The total extinction (like of Tasmanians) or depopulation and cultural, economic pauperisation by the time the Australia aborigines had abraded the full impact of white in them by way of competition The Australia governments major policy at the end of the 19th century was one of protectionism this involved herding the remnants of various tribal groups into the most essential items of survival like food and blankets up to 1957, to he called a British citizen a person had to dissolve all tribal affiliation only after 1958 was the native welfare act amended a separate ethnic identity of a mixed population was also evolved The tribal policy or aboriginal policy of protectionism excluded administratively those who lived close to Europeans and who could be treated as disadvantaged people within the European community them in Australia the term aborigine obtained a socio-economic connotation Ruther than a purely racial one.
They were viewed as people with a kind of liability and special legal protection laws were made, making them totally dependant upon the state losing what ever identity they had they were reduced to a state of passivity and not deemed social adults in any sense of the texts the earlier policy of the Australia government to keep the aboriginals away from the mainstream in reservation underwent a national turnover by the discovery of valuable mining resources as the Aboriginal land in 1968, the aborigines in yirrkala filed a petition to stop mining altogether an it violated their seared lands they were total by the law court that they were not legal owners if the land in 1977, the Aboriginal land right act was passed by which some amount of land was transferred into aboriginal ownership The economic input from the royalties gave the aborigines the financial backup to fight their cases simultaneously there has been a growth of outstation movement under which the aborigines are increasingly moving away from reservations into their own territories presumably to carry on their own way of life the government has been sympathetic towards decentralization. The government approval of policies of decentralization server to create perhaps a much derived dichotomy between the whites and the aboriginals but the catter in the process have developed a political commissioners which is bringing than into continuous conflity with the capitalists over questions of resource control the whites claim to land and resources is a hang up of the white man’s original ideology of theirs being a natural or birth right over most territories which they had luppened to wrusp by sheer force