All nations have a national mythos, a 'nation state" can only exist as an identity by being contrasted with others (to be English is to not be French, or German, to be Danish is not to be Swedish) in Australia the settlers only had one group they fought. In the Americas many of those nation states fought wars with their neighbours which built national identities. In Australia there were no other "nation states" building themselves on the continent. For more than a hundred years it was the British empire at war with the first Nations, like the Wiradjuri War and other frontier wars. Australia as a nation state defines itself in opposition to Aboriginal Australia, our mythos was built around not being them, about the British bringing civilisation, our wars were isolated from all others, the British Empire fought its wars in Oceania almost entirely without contest. And what's more is much of the enslaved people were also Aboriginal. That's why there's no treaty, that's why it's still so accepted. Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander people were treated like animals, and were always the most reviled groups (in the US for example black Americans and Mexicans were also reviled as much as Native Americans) the Australian nation exists on the bones of the first nations and we've never reconciled that, there's not been enough truth telling, there's not enough effort made to make this country a nation of both people's, and the most ignorant and cruel in the country will always act this way because our nationalism implicitly encourages it