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Impact Of European Colonisation On Aboriginal People

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European colonisation led to the loss of land for the First Nations Peoples of Australia for many reasons. Aboriginal people had a strong connection with the land, and the colonists wanted to take that away, the ideas of Terra Nullius made the colonists think it was okay and the loss of land had a tremendous impact on the Aboriginal people and made it hard to live.

The Aboriginal people had a deep connection with the land, but the colonists wanted to take this away from them. While Europeans believed that they owned the land they lived on, the Aboriginal people thought that the land owned them, that ‘the land is [their] mother’. Aboriginal people would never take other people's land because they know how devastated they would be if someone took their land and they couldn’t do that to someone else. But with most of southeast Asia and the Americas already being colonised, they set their eyes on Australia and it didn’t matter how much the land means to the Aboriginal people, the colonists were going to take it. …show more content…

The colonists believed that the land was empty and therefore they had the right to claim it for themselves. This idea resulted in Indigenous Australians being removed from their land. Although Indigenous peoples were already living on the land, the British claimed ownership over Australia in 1770, when Captain James Cook claimed the land on behalf of the British Crown. The British government passed laws, like the Terra Nullius doctrine, that denied Indigenous Australians the right to their land while it allowed European settlers to claim and occupy it. The Aboriginals were forced off the land that they had owned for years and were forced to live in missions or

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