Aboriginals And The Law

since 1788, the newcomers to australia have often assumed that indigenous peoples' cultures and societies were worthless, because their efforts to understand the white society were too superficial. Indigenous Australians have in the past been completely excluded and to a large extent remain largely excluded from 'normal' economic activities. Even when barriers to institutional exclusion are progressively removed, practical barriers related to location, lack of education, health status, lack of access to capital, and a host of other factors combine to exclude Indigenous people effectively. there are many issues that have and still are affecting the indeginous australians such as land rights, deaths in custody and the stolen generation which have been looked over by the government to some extent. however, was the government response enough to make the aboriginal and torres strait islander peoples' life easy and equivilant to non aboriginal lifestyles? the answer to this can be evaluated ...