Nova Peris: A New Age for Indigenous Australians

Former Olympian, Nova Peris, has become the first Indigenous Australian of either gender to be preselected by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) for a winnable national seat on the senate. This move by the ALP marks a new age for Indigenous Australians in Politics and reflects on the changed social landscape of Australia.

The first settlers who set up colonies in Australia didn't even recognise the Indigenous Australians as people and treated them as slaves. Even in the last century Indigenous Children were taken from their families and put in white homes so as to bring up these children with the values of other non-indigenous Australians. Now, these acts of taken Indigenous Children (known as the 'Stolen Generation') have been apologised for and we have Indigenous Australians, such as Nova Peris, becoming a member of the Government.

Nova Peris is just one of the many markers of a new age for Indigenous Australians and the changed social landscape of Australia.

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