1. Access and Equity for Indigenous Australians

2. Historical developments
Occupation
Dispersal
Protection
Segregation and Assimilation
Integration
Self determination

3. Occupation 1788 British arrived with their law
Aboriginal law denied and declared non existent
Terra Nullius (land belonging to no one)
Not allowed to testify(later must be corroborated)
No protection from the white law

4. Dispersal 1800’s seen as a nuisance by settlers
Policy of dispersal used
Essentially murder
I.e. Tasmania
Recognised as savages under Darwinian ideas.

5. “Protection” Not sure what to do with the indigenous population
Refer to cartoon for different ideas.What do they suggest?
Made into indentured slaves
Owned by whites like cattle, as a source of labour
Could not leave ‘owners’

6. Segregation/Assimilation
Tried to both at the same time
Turn blacks into ‘white people with black skin’
I.e. language, dress, religion, values, attitudes, social structures, law and politics
How? By putting them on reserves.

7. Segregation/Assimilation
Made legal in Wa with Aborigines Act (1905)
Full blooded people were sent to reserves to live like whites.
People were put into the hands of the state.
Mixed blood were sent to white foster parents in the hope they would become white.
Belief was that indigenous Australians would die out and mixed blood would be breed out.
I.e. Stolen generations

8. Integration
Early 1970’s- beginning to allow own culture to remain but operate in white Anglo-Saxon world
Funding was increased

9. Self-Determination
What improvements or moves towards self determination have occurred in recent times?

10. Issues for Indigenous Australians
Complete a concept map on the disadvantages Indigenous Australians face with regards to access and equity in the legal system.