Contact Period in Australia

  • Aboriginals are dispossessed of their land.

    70 colonists are now farming on the Hawkesbury River. Aboriginal people have been dispossessed of their land.
  • Black Wars

    Two Aboriginal boys were killed near Windsor by five Hawkesbury settlers.This started a six year period of war between the Settlers and Aboriginal people called the "Black Wars"
  • Slaughter of Aboriginals by Colonists

    Colonists are told by lieutenants to shoot Aboriginals because of their resistance, meaning they were not doing what they were told by the Europeans. Slaughter of Aboriginal people in Van Diemen's Land had them begun.
  • Darug people dispossessed of their land

    Most of Western Sydney has become colonised and the Darug people are now dispossessed of their land.
  • Passports issued to Aboriginals

    Passports are given to Aboriginals who conduct themselves in a suitable manner to show they are now accepted by the European people.
  • Areas set aside for Aboriginals

    5 areas in Sydney were set aside for the Indigenous people.Seeds, tools, clothes and stores were given to those who settled on the land for six months.
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    Violence increased

    Violence has now increased between settlers and natives on the Liverpool plains.
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    Genocide in colonies

    A selected committee of the British House of Commons stated that Aboriginal people had a "plain right and sacred right" to their land. This committee reports that there is now genocide happening in colonies.
  • 50 left

    50 Aboriginal people left from Sydney to Botany Bay
  • 150 Aboriginals dead

    150 are dead because of resistance of arrest in the Kimberly.