CONFLICT BETWEEN EUROPEANS AND INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS

Bad treatment of Aboriginals Bad treatment of English colonists

1606- Dutch have first contact with Aboriginals, conflict arises between the two.
1623-Armed encounters on the north coast led to an Aboriginal man being shot.
1778-Aboriginals thought the Europeans were the spirits of their ancestors mainly because they
were so white.
1788- Early February-Botany Bay, French fire shots at the Aboriginals.
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May- Rushcutters Bay, conflict between first fleet and aboriginals-two convicts killed.
-December-Europeans capture first aboriginal. Estimated 1500 Aboriginals living in Sydney area.
-750, 000-1 million in total.
1789- April-European disease small pox decreases the population of Aboriginals dramatically.
1794-Aboriginals land taken from them for colonists farming.
1799-five Europeans kill two Aboriginal children are found guilty but pardoned by the Governor.
1803-600 aboriginals and 200 Europeans are killed in the Black War.
1804-Risdon Cove- 50 aboriginal people are to be shot for their resistance against colonists.
-Van Diemens Land-Aboriginals are being slaughtered.
1805- Aboriginals being dispossessed of land and so they respond by killing colonists.
1816-Sydney- Aboriginals attack farms. 76
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regiment sent to arrest offenders. 14 Aboriginals are
killed in the arrest.
1819-20- Conflict over land results in mass killings.
1824-August-Bathurst, seven Europeans killed, seen as threat from Aboriginals. Soldiers, police and
colonists kill up to 100 Aboriginals in multiple attacks.
1834-October-Battle of Pinjarra- Governor sends men to attack 80 Aboriginals. One European dies.
Different records suggest 14 Aboriginals died other say a whole clan.
1836-Expansion of Port Phillip district causes deaths of many Aboriginals.
1837- British Government realises Aboriginals had plain and sacred right to their land (Australia).
They also think that Europeans in Australia are committing genocide on the natives.
1837-45- Aboriginal kill European animals for food due to the drought that struck NSW.
1838-January-Liverpool Plains- 60-70 Aboriginals killed. One corporal speared in the leg only
European casualty.
-11 April-10 Europeans killed by Aboriginals.
-10 June- 12 colonists kill 28 aboriginals.
-December-Seven European are hung for killing one aboriginal child.
-Fights for water on Bogan River result in eight European deaths.
1841-27
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August-Rufus River- near the borders of SA and Vic 30 Aboriginals are killed.
1848-National Board of Education says "It is impractical to provide any form of education for the
children of blacks".
1857-27 October- 11 colonists killed by the Jiman. Later several Jiman men are shot by local
squatters and police.
1861- 19 Europeans killed in Queensland. Soon after 170 Aboriginals are slaughtered as a sort of
revenge.
1868-Kimberley-150 Aboriginals are killed for resisting arrest.
1890-Western Australia- Aboriginals are sentenced 3 years jail or 24 lashes for stealing a sheep.
Europeans are not sentenced for killing an Aboriginal. In one case an aboriginal was tied
behind a horse and dragged across the ground to his death.
1897-Kimberley- 20 aboriginals were shot for resistance fighting.
1965- Charles Perkins Highlights the bad conditions Aboriginal people live through.
1967-Australian Aboriginals can finally vote previous to this date they werent considered citizens.
From this timeline you can clearly see that more of it is highlighted yellow which means that
Europeans treated the Indigenous Australians way worse. The numbers show that many more
Aboriginals died in the conflicts than Europeans. A lot of Aboriginals didnt die but they were still
affected by the Europeans stealing their land and interrupting their culture. There are multiple
occasions where the Europeans were inhumane to the Aboriginals which clearly backs my theory
that the Indigenous Australians were treated unfairly by the Europeans.







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BY Kelly