Checkpoints:
1. The Aborigines, who were the first setlers on the Australian continent came from the Asian mainland and the islands north of the Australian continent.
2. The reasons the Aboriginal population was halved quite soon after the European arrived was because the Europeans brought with them unknown diseases like smallpox. The Europeans drove the Aboriginals away from the most fertile land because they wanted it for themselves.
3. More than 100,000 Aboriginals children are belived to have been taken away from their homes.

Viewpoints:
1. I think the reason Mr. Howard and Mr. Keating refused to make an official apology was because they did not think they should not take the blame of something people before them did, or maybe they were embarrassed.
2. Other groups of people who hva experienced something similar are the Sami because the Norwegians tried to Norwegianize them, the Indians because the new settlers in America, who came from Europe wanted their land, and the Apartheid because the white people in South-Africa thought they were better than the black.

Working with texts -tasks

Questions for task 1:

1) I think the writer is somebody who describes the gentleman, but probably with the gentleman behind him putting in flattering words because it is many flattering words of the gentleman, but also a kind of honesty that I don`t think the gentleman would have written himself, so the writer put it in; example: "Given his discriminating taste"

2) The purpose of the text is to find the gentleman a lady 

3) the genre this text is written in is article because it is a description of a man in his 50`s, so it kind of describes men in their 50`s generally.