Anonymous 1058
This submission discusses the devastating effects of colonisation on First Peoples and calls for allowing First Peoples to look after the environment.
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Colonisation was devastating to the First Peoples. From stolen lands to rounding people upinto missions and removing children from their families, the effects were profound and a disaster. I am sorry to say that my own ancestors may have had something to do with this as they were very early settlers from England and Ireland. I don’t know if they were involved in the massacres of First Peoples but I hope not.
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Allow First Peoples to look after the environment. The current and previous governments have trashed just about everything. Stop the indiscriminate burning in forests that destroy fauna and flora. Teach people about history and how the land was used prior to colonisation.
The real history needs to be told, not the sanitised version.
The real history needs to be told, not the sanitised version.
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