it's still happening - Page 2

I think we have learned a lot, like how to excuse bad behaviour to make it look good.

not sure if those history books cover stolen wages, officials were appointed to manage wages of aboriginal stockmen when a law was passed that they must be paid to work.

most never saw a cent as it all went in the pockets of the "protectors" managing the wages.

Yes;  Hughes covers those type of abuses too.  They happened both with Aboriginals and the

transported convicts.  Parallels with the whites who ran the American Indian Reservations, I

think.  And going back to Joan's original premise,  things that occur in re African states.