AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32604, 12 May 1971, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES

Two hundred years ago i James Cook, a Royal Naval i lieutenant from Great Britain, set foot in Botany Bay to be greeted with spears ( and antagonism from the ’

inhabitants of the new Australia —the aborigines. Today the aborigines are far fewer in number than the contented nomadic tribes which originally roamed the

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island continent they called their own.

In 1970, when Queen Elizabeth II witnessed a folksy reenactment of Cook's first landing, the black militants among Australia’s coloured population simultaneously performed their own ceremony on the opposite shore of Botany Bay. They threw wreaths into the ocean to mark the death of their tribes and to draw attention to the difficulties in the way of their hopes and ambitions ;o become as Australian as the settlers from a score of other countries. “Man Alive” discovered in Australia concern as well as apathy; a problem for a government unused to racial issues; and a fierce militancy with black overtones already familiar in other parts of the world. “Black Australians” screens from CHTV3 on Sunday,