White Australians Celebrate, Aboriginal People Mourn

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Too often, laws that govern Aboriginal land rights favor businesses trying to exploit natural resources over preservation-minded titleholders. Maybe, with Aboriginal people at the forefront, we will see how Australia Day could be the beginning of something better. Aboriginal children are also tortured behind bars, as was the case at Don Dale Youth Detention Center in the Northern Territory as recently as 2014. Many Australians, faced with the reality of what Australia Day symbolizes, tell Aboriginal people and their supporters to ?get over it.? But for many Aboriginal people, Jan. 26 involves celebrating the symbolic beginning of a state program of genocide. The rates of Aboriginal child removal have gone up every year since he promised it would never happen again.