Aborigines: when are they getting back their lands?

I wonder why we keep quiet about the plight of the Aborigines. I wonder why the international community is practically not saying much about the suffering of the Aborigines.  I wonder why the British won’t return Aboriginal lands to them. And I wonder why the whites in Australia call themselves Australians when originally their (White) forefathers were “savages and convicts” that cruelly and unjustly snatched the fertile lands of Australia from the natives. 

The Aborigines have been denied the right to their ancestral and native lands since time immemorial.  They were subjected to what I like to call ‘genocide and cleansing’. Much has been said about the atrocities committed against the Aborigines and the many Indigenous Australians, and yet little has been done to correct the evils of the past. The most notorious of all the Australian evil policies were those that led to what has become known as the ‘Stolen Generations’. Under several federal and state programs that continued into the 1970s, the government forcibly removed Aboriginal children from their families and sent them to white families and church-run institutions for “cultural reprogramming”.    

The settlers not only stole Aboriginal lands, they also took away their culture, and left them with diseases, idleness, alcoholism and violent aggression to mention but a few. They said the present government is ‘trying’ to correct some evils of the past! What did he do if I may ask? ‘He apologised’ for the evil deed of their forefathers and the country as a whole celebrates ‘Sorry Day’. They are also making efforts to address some of the imbalances.

But in my opinion, the greatest justice that can be done to correct this evil of the past, is to restore the right of ownership of Aboriginal lands to the Aborigines; and all claims the state possesses on the lands should be relinquished to the rightful owners.