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1688: William Dampier quote (page 7) “The Indigenous people were the most miserablest people in the world”
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On the 13th May 1787 and the First fleet of 11 ships set sail from Portsmouth, England, for the shores of Botany Bay.
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Upon arriving the Europeans regarded Aborigines as ‘noble savages’
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In 1788 the Europeans saw no crops or stock grown by Indigenous people implied that no one was using the land
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it has killed half the indeginous people around port jackson
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Aborigines were extremely fearful of Europeans Settlers
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1829: European settlers established a colony on Swan River
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1831: Nyungan shot by European Settlers while stealing food
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Myall Creek Massacre
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1858: Kurnai population had reduced from 2000 to 80
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the disease was decleared eliminated from the world