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MassacreMassacre is also a verb that means to kill people in numbers, especially brutally and indiscriminately. | |
MegafaunaThe term "megafauna" is usually applied to large animals (over 100 kg). In Australia, however, megafauna were never as large as those found on other continents, and so a more lenient criterion of over 40 kg is often applied | |
MurriAn Aboriginal word used in the Brisbane / South - East area of Queensland to
refer to ourselves ( Aboriginal people )." Gurri " is another word used in the same
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Mythsa) - in the first colonial contact Aboriginal people were defined as the " natives ",
which de-humanised them and made them "inferior" to white people, still
today Aboriginal people are being treated as being inferior by the majority of
the Australian population, based on this myth. b) - Aboriginal people receive "free cars", "free houses", "extra money" in their pensions and dole. c) - only Aboriginal people have been affected by colonialism, (the majority of white Australians do not realise to what extent they have, and are still being affected by colonialism). d) - it's a myth that colonialism is part of the past, it is continuing
in the present, and Aboriginal people feel this is demonstrated
and perpetrated by Government Policies based on the underlying premise of
" assimilation ".
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