The relationship between the Aborigines and the Australian government has fluctuated throughout its history. During the British colonial period, Aborigines were persecuted with their land stolen and many of them killed. With little rights, the population dwindled and by the 1900s the natives were a small minority in their own land.
permits shippers of commercial goods, ranging from automobiles to grain, to save time and money by transporting cargo more quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
