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I believe it was as recently as 1975 when race discrimination laws were introduced that modren day Australia decided it was illegal to shoot Aborigines, revoking the long standing martial laws of NSW and Tasmania that permitted the practice in the name of sport. Indeed it was invoked as the defence in the Myall Creek massacre, that the defendants had no real idea that what they were doing was wrong.

Mind you, I might be wrong too, as I'm trying to take this from a distant memory that a third party once told me, but I think the Australian treatment of the Aborigine has been largely air brushed from their history in much the same way as the Americans have the Plains Indians

[QUOTE="Warbler, post: 2092811, member: 65228"] I believe it was as recently as 1975 when race discrimination laws were introduced that modren day Australia decided it was illegal to shoot Aborigines, revoking the long standing martial laws of NSW and Tasmania that permitted the practice in the name of sport. Indeed it was invoked as the defence in the Myall Creek massacre, that the defendants had no real idea that what they were doing was wrong. Mind you, I might be wrong too, as I'm trying to take this from a distant memory that a third party once told me, but I think the Australian treatment of the Aborigine has been largely air brushed from their history in much the same way as the Americans have the Plains Indians [/QUOTE]

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