While Indigenous Australians, like Indigenous peoples globally, have long pressed for self-determination, research finds widespread opposition to Indigenous self-determination among non-Indigenous Australians. ...‘ordinary’ Australian attitudes towards Aboriginal people also consistently denied the relevance of historical injustice in their discussions of ‘the Aboriginal situation’, and expressed considerable hostility to any perceived ‘special benefits’ for Indigenous Australians. ...a majority of 1,300 survey respondents believed that Indigenous Australians are to blame for their own ‘disadvantage’ and that the past practices of non-Indigenous Australians are irrelevant.
Talking Indigenous politics: The impact of teaching Indigenous history, Ben Kelly for Australian Review of Public Affairs