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A 5 page discussion of the factors which have influenced white perception of the Australian frontier. The author contends that this perception has been fueled not only by fear and racism but also by an intense greed to capitalize upon the lands and the peoples of Australia. Not only were the aborigines distinctly different racially and culturally, they were visibly resistant to the white construct of civilization. Today, however, these same aborigines are beginning to grasp at a collective voice, a voice which can be used to direct the destruction which they have witnessed in the lands which they hold so dear. Bibliography lists sources.
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The construction of the Australian frontier has been influenced by a variety of factors over time. One of the most prevalent, however, has been white imagination.
This imagination has been driven by a number of apparently inherent white beliefs, two of the most destructive being extreme racism and a deeply ingrained fear of anything that is
wild and untamed. In Australia these two destructive beliefs were given fuel by the aborigines, those mysterious indigenous peoples who appeared to the whites to represent all of the
sinister elements of their worst nightmares. Not only were the aborigines distinctly different racially and culturally, they were visibly resistant to the white construct of civilization. Today, however,
these same aborigines are beginning to grasp at a collective voice, a voice which can be used to direct the destruction which they have witnessed in the lands which they
hold so dear. The discrimination and social injustices faced by Australias aborigines are deeply ingrained into the post-contact history of Australia and, in
fact, into the construct of the frontier which was formulated even at the time Australia was first colonized. Interestingly, Australia is a relatively young country. Just over one-hundred
years old it was once a British penal colony (Edwards, 2001). Even the fact that the original colonists were, in essence, outcasts from mainstream British society didnt dissuade them
from their joint association of the Australian frontier and the aborigines themselves as sinister elements in that frontier. Every since the arrival of
settlers to the British colony in 1788 there has been conflict between the aborigines and the European interlopers to their lands (Edwards, 2001). This conflict has manifested in a
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