article_snippet.sent: While protests about Islam infiltrating Australia have dominated the media, Ms Msimang said Ms Msimang started to recognise a systematic approach to 'assimilate’ and 'eradicate' Australia’s Indigenous heritage, simply by denying that Aboriginal Australian's have different needs to white Australians. '
article_snippet.sent: While protests about Islam infiltrating Australia have dominated the media, Ms Msimang said Ms Msimang started to recognise a systematic approach to 'assimilate’ and 'eradicate' Australia’s Indigenous heritage, simply by denying that Aboriginal Australian's have different needs than white Australians.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Aboriginal people are over-represented in the criminal justice system, and have health and educational outcomes that – if Aboriginal people were taken alone – would make Australia look like a developing country,’ Ms Msimang wrote.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Msimang said Aboriginal people don't make a 'lifestyle choice' to live on the land, instead, it's Aboriginal people connection with country that's meant Aboriginal people've stayed there and the fact that such plans could be even contemplated speaks to a ‘far larger problems in Australia.
article_snippet.sent: In Ms Msimang eyes, forcing Indigenous communities who have an innate ‘connection to country’ to leave country’ homes and ‘assimilate’ into normal ‘civilised’ society mirrors our gruesome history where children were systematically torn from children families and ‘taught the ways of white society.
article_snippet.sent: In Ms Mismng’s eyes, forcing Indigenous communities who have an innate ‘connection to country’ to leave country’ homes and ‘assimilate’ into normal ‘civilised’ society mirrors our gruesome history where children were systematically torn from children families and ‘taught the ways of white society.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The issue for aboriginal people is that aboriginal people're still such a minority and that makes it hard for aboriginal people to define the terms of the conversation.
highlights_snippet.sent: Many of these communities comprise Indigenous Australians .
  