Aboriginal Australians : A History Since 1788 (9781760872625) by Broome Richard

Author:Broome, Richard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd
Published: 2019-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

Once arrested, black Australians were less likely to be granted bail than other Australians, and endured a legal system that was more alien and less comprehensible to them than to most other Australians. In 1965, Aboriginal people in Western Australia, who formed less than 3 per cent of the population, were convicted of 11 per cent of the offences and made up 24 per cent of the prison population. Their percentage of prisoners rose to 32 per cent in 1971. In Australia in 1971, the Aboriginal imprisonment rate was fourteen times that of other Australians, a rate that remained steady for a decade.84

Civil rights were all but achieved by 1966, save for those living in Queensland, but community attitudes lagged behind. Adult white Australians alive in the 1960s had their attitudes formed in the era when it was thought Aboriginal people were an unworthy, primitive and doomed race, and the butt of jokes of those who thought themselves civilised. Adult Aboriginal Australians of the 1960s well remembered the years of no rights or few rights, and carried the psychological scars of oppression and lack of self-worth. Equality before the law was a first step, the second was to provide equality of opportunity, and the third was to provide respect for difference. By 1970 these challenges lay ahead of all Australians.

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