Australia continues to celebrate a notion of British discovery and peaceful
settlement, under the illegitimate and illegal premise of a continent
belonging to no one. Although this ideology is false and has been nationally
and internationally acknowledged through its very own a judicial
system, it continues to remain a strongly held belief in hearts and minds
of Australians. This is because this way of knowing has been taught to
every Australian, through a form of social and political indoctrination
which has purposely failed to acknowledge the First Peoples’ civilisation
along with their vast scientific and sustainable technology.
Instead we were all fed through socialisation that Australia was settled
through peaceful occupation, a myth that continues to be taught in our
primary and secondary schools. Our tertiary institutions have also failed
to ensure that Indigenous perspectives are included in all areas of learning.
Australia continues to focus on a story that is and was never its truth.
This has been even more difficult for those who are Australia’s First peoples,
whose very being, their great wisdoms, laws and lores and knowledges,
have not been recognised and taken into account and celebrated.
Although Australia’s Aboriginal people’s technologies, paintings and tools
predate all other wonders of the world including the Egyptian pyramids,
they were not noted or admired.