Find Out More Search this site Advanced Options Australia and Human Rights Australia has received numerous criticisms for its human rights violations. Australia has had a very racist past in which apartheid has been practiced and where indigenous Aboriginal people have lost almost all their land and suffered many prejudices.
Aborigines are the poorest group in Australia and suffer from very much preventable diseases.
For more about these issues, you can start at these harrowing reports from John Pilger a prominent Australian journalist who has been critical of many western policies. They reported that the Australian population in 1788 was 750,000, or three times the previous estimate. They concluded that more than 600,000 people had died as result of white settlement. Threat of reducing human rights commitments with the United Nations Australia has recently decided to reduce cooperation with the United Nations on human rights issues because the UN criticized it. Other governments in the region may thank them for it, but the individuals they attack torture and kill, will not.