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By David Andrew Roberts
Mistakes, stuff-ups and misjudgements are part of any country's background. living on what could have been isn't valuable, yet recognising our error and studying from them is necessary. during this hugely unique and provocative booklet prime Australian historians try to do exactly that. Many tales, eventualities and occasions are explored with verve, compassion and perception. the nice error of Australian background is a full of life and provocative account of the place we would have gotten it incorrect, written in order that subsequent time we will be able to get it correct.
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The result was that Aborigines became, in effect, secondclass subjects, and whatever conditional rights they had been granted were consistently ignored. Meanwhile, following the manoeuvres of the 1830s and 1840s, the frontier became even bloodier and more pervasive, ensuring that violence and injustice became both the ingrained method, and a persistent and defining element, of the colonisation of Australia. The growing wealth 29 ..... Great Mistakes02 11/9/06 12:03 PM Page 30 The Great Mistakes of Australian History .....
9 Once the state took control, the co-operation between church and state implied in Rule 5 could not last. Objections to any abuse at a government institution had first to be made to the manager, that is, to the perpetrator of the alleged offence, then to the Chief Executive, or to the Minister. Almost always they backed each other. So when, for example, 15-year-old Laurah Dinah was locked up in a tiny cell at the 38 ..... Great Mistakes02 11/9/06 12:03 PM Page 39 The Par ramatta Native Institution .....
The Native Institution at Black Town struggled and was eventually abandoned. Numerous comparable schemes undertaken by Christian missionaries to offer religious instruction and vocational training were aborted amid frustration and disappointment. European values, it seemed, could simply not be accepted by Aborgines, nor imposed upon them. For some, this highlighted the extraordinary difficulties that would need to be surmounted in order to raise them to the standards required for citizenship. But more usually it was read as proof that the Aborigines were so low on the scale of humanity as to be totally irredeemable.