The First People

The honour of Australia's first people from them cannot be taken away But sadly for Australia's first people theyare Australia's second class citizens of today The booing of Adam Goodes the great sportsman a former Australian of the year Did have racial undertones to it and this seems obviously clear Many of Australia's first people are living in dire poverty And few of them hold important positions and most of them for advancement starved of opportunity To indigenous Australians living in remote areas life opportunities does not apply That they are treated as second class citizens in their own Country does seem rather hard to deny One thing that cannot be taken from them is that they are the first people of this southern Land And why so many of them are so poor is not hard for tounderstand They are among the marginalized in their own Country and this seems a sad thing to say So few of them hold important positions in the Australia of today Looked on as not equal in their own Country racism in humanity remain But the honour of Australia's first people is something that they do retain Their ancestors have lived in Australia for thousands of centuries of years And the arrival of the colonizers only brought to them poverty and tears.