History has shown that non-Aboriginal Australia was, most provocatively, ethnocentric towards Aboriginal people. Looking at the obviously poor and unfair treatment of Aboriginal people early in the country's history and whether or not attitudes and policies have really changed. There have been changes in public opinion and political opinion with the acceptance and well-being of Aboriginal people over the last hundred years, but there have been enough changes to say that there is no longer any ethnocentrism. There is little mention of Aboriginal people in early Australian history books. What we know is that the view of non-Aboriginal people was very ethnocentric. The view was that Aboriginal people were savages and little attention was paid to the fact that Aboriginal people had to live off this land which was now being used for agriculture. Relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people during the nineteenth century consisted of violent disputes over ownership of land, food and water. During this period Aboriginal children were taken from their families and used as a source of labor for European farmers. “The greatest advantage of young Aboriginal servants was that they were cheap and were never paid beyond the provision of varying amounts of food and clothing. Consequently, every European on or near the frontier, regardless of his circumstances, could acquire and maintain a personal servant” (Arrufat 1930). In 1909 the government created the Aboriginal Protection Agency. This government agency has been given the power to remove Aboriginal children from their families without consent and without a court order. The idea was to take Aboriginal children into orphanage-like institutions and raise them... middle of paper... due to welfare restrictions. This intervention should be considered very ethnocentric because it establishes specific laws for Aboriginal people which shows that Australia still does not consider Aboriginal people as non-Aboriginal people. Also, how taking away their culture is non-Aboriginal Australia's response to Aboriginal problems. In Conclusion Non-Aboriginal Australia was and still is ethnocentric towards Aboriginal people. On the surface there has been much progress for Aboriginal rights, but non-Aboriginal Australia is still very reluctant to welcome Aboriginal people as part of its community. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/stolen /stolen08.htmlIndigenous Law ResourcesReconciliation and Social Justice Library, paragraph 2http://www.hreoc.gov.au/social_Justice/sj_report/ sjreport07/chap3.html#part2 last body of the paragraph