Lecture 4 Flashcards
The History Wars revolve around the interpretation of British colonisation of Australia, particularly its impact on ___________________.
Indigenous Australians
Bill Stanner’s 1968 Boyer lecture highlighted “the great Australian silence” which ignored the extent of the impact on Indigenous Australians in favor of a ‘___________________’ narrative.
Triumphalist
According to Henry Reynolds’ The Other Side of the Frontier (1981), estimates of frontier casualties include Indigenous: ___________________ killed and Europeans: ___________________ killed.
20,000-30,000
Geoffrey Blainey criticized the “___________________ view” of Australian history in the 1990s.
Black armband
Keith Windschuttle’s The Fabrication of Aboriginal History (2002) criticized historians’ reliance on oral evidence and downplayed the extent of violence, fatalities, and negative ___________________.
Impact
Introduced disease was the quickest and biggest killer among Indigenous Australians, as they were considered a ‘___________________’ population.
Virgin Soil
The Appin Massacre, ordered by Governor Macquarie in April 1816, resulted in the deaths of ___________________ Aboriginal people.
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John Batman made a treaty with First Nations groups around ___________________, but it was declared void by Governor Bourke in 1835.
Melbourne Area
Native Police units utilized a ‘divide and conquer’ approach, particularly on the ___________________ frontier.
Queensland
andamarra, born in 1870, led retaliatory attacks against settler-colonists in the ___________________.
Kimberleys, WA
Slavery in Australia was more endemic than previously thought, particularly in ___________________.
North Queensland sugar cane plantations
The “Stolen Generations” involved the removal of Indigenous children from their families, with the goal of ___________________.
Assimilation
The Uluru Statement from the Heart called for ___________________, ___________________, and ___________________.
Voice; truth-telling; treaty
The recent 2023 Referendum focused on ___________________.
“Voice to Parliament”
The last recorded frontier violence in central Australia occurred in the ___________________.
1930S
The Economic warfare tactic involved First Nations people raiding livestock and destroying crops for ___________________.
Survival
The Wirrayaraay people of Gimilaraay Nation were involved in the ___________________ massacre in North NSW.
Myall Creek
The Native Police units were active particularly on the Queensland frontier, utilizing a ‘divide and conquer’ approach led by ___________________.
UK-born officers
The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody took place from ___________________.
1987-1991
The recent 2023 Referendum focused on “Voice to Parliament” and aimed to ___________________.
include Aboriginal people as people
Aboriginal people are over-represented in arrests and incarceration, making up _________________ of the prison population.
27%
The Northern Territory Intervention, which occurred from 2007 to 2012, involved the army being sent in to ‘control’ local Aboriginal people and required the suspension of the ___________________.
Racial Discrimination Act
The Uluru Statement from the Heart called for ___________________ as part of its recommendations.
Treaty
John Batman’s treaty with First Nations groups around Melbourne was declared void by ___________________.
Governor Bourke
The Federal Inquiry into separation took place from 1995 to 1997, resulting in the formal report titled ___________________.
Bringing them Home
The Aboriginal Protection Board was established in ___________________.
1883
The ‘Killing Times’ in the Kimberley, WA, occurred in the ___________________.
1890s
The Commonwealth government’s attempt to assimilate First Nations peoples took place from the ___________________.
1900s-1970s
