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The history of Australia hasn't really been well known. Australia was one of the last continents to be colonized by Europeans. It has progressed from a British colony into a multi ethnic country growing with Southeast Asia and Japan. The Ancestors of Australia were from Southeast Asia as indigenous people. They led the a hunter-gatherer development and their population grew before the colonization by the west in the 18th century. Australia was spotted by the portugese in the 16th century and found by Spainard Luis Vaez de torres around 1605. Captain James Cook

 About Doris Pilkington. She was born in western Australia. The Australian goverment took black aboriginal children and, children of mixed races and taken to settlements to be assimilated, or similar to the white‘s environment. She was taken at a very young age to the Moore River Native Settlement. She was the oldest of three girls who escaped out of the camp. They were forbidden to speak their native language and forced to abandon their aboriginal heritage, because “whites were the higher class“. ‘‘They took me away when I was three and a half. That was very, very difficult, those kind of experiences kept getting pushed back, I didn't want to deal with it at that time. I keep telling people now what I had to do before I went back-I had to go metaphorically through the cross and undo all that conditioning. I was like so many of these institutionalised boys and girls, but one thing I had in my favour was that I always knew that my mother was on that station. I had no idea where it was. I sent a letter to her. When I met my Mum, I was on my school holidays, and there it was, the letter I sent to the mission. It went all around--to Balfour Station via Port Hedland, down to Marble Bar, and onwards--it was amazing! It is kind of symbolically like me and a lot of other people that start from one particular area where they thought their people came from and then find out, no, it's not really there at all. That search happened to me. It was really hard, those ten years. But now, I go up now and I 'm willing to learn anything they want to teach me, the old people. What is amazing now is that they accept me as one of them, they speak in language, although sometimes I might miss a word. http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=RELEVANCE&inPS=true&prodId=LitRC&userGroupName=ccsd5_ehs&tabID=T002&searchId=R3&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&contentSegment=&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&currentPosition=1&contentSet=GALE%7CA90137648&&docId=GALE|A90137648&docType=GALE