• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    My Aussie mate back in England told me that the British killed the First Nations and took their land, like his ancestors just turned up here to find swathes of unoccupied land and were like “crikey, what’s been happening here!” and immediately started doing Acknowledgement Of Country at the start of every office meeting.

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        9 months ago

        I think they assume Anglo-Australians separate their own ancestors from the British colonisers.

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        9 months ago

        If his ancestors were Irish and were forced to Australia in the 1850s due to the famine, for example, the comment makes sense