Australia's First People

Their ancestors who had lived in Australia for thousands of years
At the arrival of the colonizers knew heartache and tears
Their lands taken from them they were dispossessed
And Australia's first people became the oppressed

The unmarked graves of Australia their shameful secrets hide
In massacres and introduced diseases many of the Nation's first people died
Even in recent times their children from them taken not a cause of National pride
When to take children from their parents without justification the government decide

Australia's first people many of them in poverty
Their ancestors the original inhabitants of the great southern Country
Their belief was they did not own the land to the land they belong
And who is to say in their thinking that they did have it wrong

They have a strong sense of belonging Australia's first race
When they are talking of Country they are talking of their homeplace
Many indigenous tribes extinct unmarked graves shameful secrets do hide
Sadly their lot is the lot of indigenous people Worldwide.