They will always be the first Australians that privilege to them alone belong <br />Their ancestors lived in Australia sixty thousand years ago and their bond to Nature strong <br />The children of the Dreamtime they should take pride of place <br />As the Aboriginal people of this southern Land but such is not the case. <br /> <br />The children of the Dreamtime their praises we should sing <br />Yet their culture is dying and that does seem such a sad thing <br />They have been treated badly and they have been oppressed <br />And their problems caused by white occupation have never been addressed. <br /> <br />In the Government of their Country they do not have any say <br />The majority rules that's how it is and 'tis always been that way <br />Indigenous people all around the World have received a raw deal <br />the invaders passed on to them their diseases and their Lands from them did steal. <br /> <br />They will always be the first Australians that of them cannot be denied <br />And the story of their dispossession has become known Worldwide <br />White people rule their Country they are of the underclass of their Homeland <br />Why this should be to fair minded people seems hard to understand<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/they-will-always-be-the-first-australians/
