For Australia's First People

Of more than two hundred years of racism, oppression and massacres they have survived But for Australia's first people their time has almost arrived For to be recognized as Australia's first race And as the descendants of the Country's first people claim their rightful place For too long by non indigenous Australians they have been kept down And denied any opportunity of success and renown But time with it brings change as the wise one does say And for Australia's first people better times are on the way Many of their children taken from them Australia's dispossessed For far too long they have been racially vilified kept down and oppressed But their value as people in the twenty first century has grown One can say that they are in a class of their own More than two centuries of racism and oppression they have survived For Australia's first people their time has almost arrived.