British cartoonist Phil May defined the settling of Australian in this circa 1900 drawing for the Sydney Bulletin depicting the centenary of the arrival of the first fleet in Sydney in 1788 . It is captioned "Poor Pfella Me!" ... Whomever Australia is for, it is not for the Australian Aboriginal . John Bull,on a plinth named Australia 1788-1888, is shown delivering the boot to Aborigine derisively named King Billy ; others in the group represent Germany , China , America and France. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull recently delivered what was described as a " kick in the guts " when he rejected the Uluru Statement call for an indigenous advisory body .