Canada's probably a good example, but their history is still very different. We dont have, for instance, a serious issue with a french-speaking province. Unlike the new world, no major power but Britain wanted a slice of Australia, and the powers certainly werent willing to fight eachother for it (despite our illusions)
So here we are, alone with the natives at the end of the world. Crickets cherp. We sometimes like to distract ourselves from the awkwardness by convincing ourselves that we're being swamped by Asians and refugees, but we cant escape it. Unlike other colonisers, we were left with the embarrasing lot of coming up against a totally hopeless people, and no-one else. There was no point seriously fighting them, so we mostly pretended that they werent here. With the absence of other claims on the land, whether they be German, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese, Terrorist or Indonesian, we cant deny that the natives were treated shabbily - despite the enlightened intentions. Along with the fact that we started as a penal colony, it has kept us from truely embracing the land as our own. Some have reacted with hatred against Aboriginies for denying us the victory, others have fallen short of loving and identifying with the country -knowing that it has been obtained unfairly from a prehistoric people whose cultures and communities subsequently, inevitably collapsed into ruin. It's a chilling contradiction to our otherwise unique standards of 'mateship' and the fair go.
Reconciliation is therefore a national imperative