Good question: WHAT WOULD OUR GREAT GRAND FATHERS AND MOTHERS THINK IF WE CELEBRATE AUSTRALIA?????? PUTS IT IN PERFECT CONTEXT ME THINKS DR GIDEON POLYA Jan 22, 2015 at 6:23 pm The British have variously invaded 193 out of 195 UN-recognized nations plus 8 other self-governing countries (as compared to the French having invaded 80, the US 70 and Apartheid Israel 12) but the British invasion of Australia on 26 January 1788 destroyed as many as 200-600 unique Indigenous Australian tribes and a comparable number of languages and dialects, making the Australian Aboriginal Genocide qualitatively the worst genocide in human history (Australia’s quantitatively worst genocide was the WW2 Bengali Holocaust in which the British with Australian complicit deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death for strategic reasons; see Gideon Polya, “Australia And Britain Killed 6-7 Million Indians In WW2 Bengal Famine”, Countercurrents, 29 September, 2011: countercurrents.org/polya290911.htm ; Gideon Polya, “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”, now available for free perusal on the web: countercurrents.org/polya290911.htm ; Stuart Laycock , “All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To” (The History Press, 2014); and Jasper Copping, “British have invaded nine out of ten countries – so look out Luxembourg”, The Telegraph, 4 November 2012: telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-invaded-nine-out-of-ten-countries-so-look-out-Luxembourg.html ). 26 January is commemorated as Invasion Day by Indigenous Australians but celebrated as Australia Day by White Australians as the day when White Australia began. In 2015 the British are still invading other countries (currently into its Third Syrian War and its Fifth Iraq War) and the whole British–devastated world should mark 26 January as British Invasion Day or Genocide Day, noting that Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention states: “In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” Before the British Invasion of Australia on 26 January 1788, Indigenous Australians had been living in Australia for about 60,000 years. There were 350-750 different tribes and a similar number of languages and dialects, of which only 150 survive today and of these all but about 20 are endangered. After the brutish British Invasion, the Aboriginal population dropped from about 1 million in 1788 to about 0.1 million in the first century through introduced disease, deprivation and genocidal violence. The last massacres of Aborigines occurred in the 1920s but no Treaty has ever been signed. Indigenous Australians were only counted after a referendum in 1967 and were finally given some protection by the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act. In the 20th century up to 1 in 10 Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their mothers, the so-called Stolen Generations. Forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their mothers is continuing today at a record rate. Indigenous Australians are far worse off than White Australians in relation to housing, health, wealth, social conditions, imprisonment, deaths in custody, forcible removal of children, avoidable death and life expectancy (see Gideon Polya, “ Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal Ethnocide By Politically Correct Racist Apartheid Australia ”, Countercurrents, 16 February 2014: countercurrents.org/polya160214.htm and “Aboriginal Genocide” : https://sites.google/site/aboriginalgenocide/ ). In 2000 about 9,000 Aborigines out of an Aboriginal population of 500,000 died avoidably every year (avoidable death rate as a percentage of population of 1.8% pa, the highest in the world and 1.8 times that of non-Arab Africa) but by 2011 this had declined to about 2,000 annual avoidable deaths out of a population about 670,000 (an avoidable death rate of 0.4% pa, the same as for impoverished South Asia but occurring in one of the world’s richest countries). The Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Australian Aboriginal Ethnocide is continuing (see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, this including an avoidable mortality-related history of every country since Neolithic times and now available for free perusal on the web: globalbodycount.blogspot.au/2012/01/body-count-global-avoidable-mortality_05.html ) .
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