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William Dampier wrote in 1688 that Australia’s Indigenous people were ‘. . . the miserablest people in the world. . . [who differed] but little from brutes’.
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Upon arrival 26 January 1788, Europeans regarded them as ‘noble savages’
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May 1789 smallpox killed half of Indigenous population around Port Jackson
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• 1817, John Oxley described how two young Indigenous men reacted to the sight of his party: ‘They trembled excessively, and, if the expression may be used, were absolutely intoxicated with fear . . ‘
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E.S established a colony on Swan River.
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Nyungan was shot by European settlers while stealing food.
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Myall Creek Massacre
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Governor Gawler quoted that black men are miserable and cannot be happy unless they’re like men.
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Kurnai population had reduced from about 2000 to 80.