Genocide in Australia : by accident or design?

The author of this paper has taken the step of depicting the history of the Aboriginal people of Australia under British rule as Genocide. Most politicians, educationists and historians tried to deny the term Genocide to describe the story of the Aboriginal peoples. The attitudes of the Australian leaders was that the way to handle the Aborigines was to assimilate them into local culture, and that any form of mistreatment was 'by mistake, or accident' and not done wilfully. It is only now that the full impact of what was done to the Aborigines has been accepted and research and studies into their history has been honestly recorded