Introduction –The arrival of the first white settlers had a severe and a huge devastating impact on Australia’s indigenous Australians. When the first British migrants arrived in January 1788 it was said that there was at least 750,000 Aboriginal people living in Australia at the time of colonization. Most of those people were split up into six hundred different groups with hundreds of different languages. Relationship between British and aboriginals – when the settlers arrived in Australia with them they brought a number of European diseases, because of the diseases the aboriginal population decreased rapidly. Loss of land - The Land is fundamental to the wellbeing of aboriginal people but all of that changed aboriginal people were unhappy with the dispossession of their land, because of this situation the dispossession of aboriginal people from their land resulted in a drastic decline of their population, as well as people both aboriginal and white settlers were killed from violent clashes and deaths were caused over the right of settlement on the land. The violent conflicts happen because of the cultural misunderstandings over land, fear and curiosity over the white settlers also. The war between both cultures became desperate and brutal as both felt like they were fighting for their survival. Not all contact …show more content…
Throughout the early 1900s, the Australian public was led to believe that Aboriginal children were disadvantaged and at risk of their own communities, and that they would receive better education, a more loving caring family as well as a more civilized upbringing in adopted white families or in government