• @LavaPlanet@lemmy.world
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      128 months ago

      They didn’t even class indigenous Australians as people, until late 1960’s. They were considered fauna.

    • ComradeSharkfucker
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      8 months ago

      America still had slavery in the 1940s when the last slave was freed (might’ve been later than that) and it still has slavery in the form of prison labor

      • @Smoogs@lemmy.world
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        88 months ago

        Aboriginals we’re even denied a seat in politics just in the last few months. I remember being shocked they voted in Tony abbot …who for years screamed about women’s menstruation in parliament. Australia is super backwards.

        • @Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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          28 months ago

          Abbott was also appointed Minister for Women.

          The Voice which, if I understand correctly, wasn’t an offer of a seat in parliament, it was a constitutional amendment that would allow an advisory board for Aboriginal and Torres strait islanders. They wouldn’t have had any actual power any way.