Thesis
The British were a vital part of the history of Australia. They explored the world creating colonies all over, but January 18, 1788 is when they first colonized Australia bringing with them many convicts from Britain. Through their exploration and colonization they traded many economic, political, and social aspects from Britain with the aborigines that they encountered in Australia. Without Britain sending people over to Australia, the continent known as the land down under would not be the same today.
Exploration:
There were many people who explored Australia, but the most famous was James Cook. James was a was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. James was given instructions to explore
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It was ironic that some of those most notoriously involved were Highlanders who had themselves suffered clearance...
The British brought new diseases to Australia. A year after the arrival of the First Fleet almost half of the Kooris around Sydney died during a smallpox epidemic. Accounts tell of dead bodies floating in the harbour and lying in rock shelters along the coast. The epidemic decimated the Eora people, leaving them grief stricken and devastated.
Many of the survivors from different groups came together and formed new bands. Around 200 Kooris lived in Woolloomooloo. In 1817 Governor Lachlan Macquarie re-dedicated the site as a protected area.
Governor Macquarie believed he could ‘improve’ the Aboriginal people. He set up the Native Institution, a school for Aboriginal children, to provide ‘Civilisation, Education and
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4. Aside from the occasional Indonesian trader or curious European sailor, the majority of the Australian Indigenous population had never seen other humans for many thousands of years. Yet, during the late 18th century, this would all change as the Europeans began to explore and inhabit Australia.
During 1770, Captain James Cook, a British Lieutenant, landed his ship theEndeavour at Botany Bay in New South Wales. Two Indigenous people from the area were unhappy and tried to stop Cook and his crew from coming ashore. Cook's crew were greater in number and were able to overpower them. They raised the British flag, which represented the taking of possession of land (Australia) for the King of England. Cook explored further along the coast of Australia before returning to Britain with the news of his discoveries and encounters.
This initial journey marked the beginning of great changes to the landscape of Australia and for the local Indigenous people who lived there. The British believed they could settle on this new land in New South Wales, which would also fix their issue of having many lawbreakers (convicts) and not enough prisons to house them.
The First Fleet and first contact with local
In 1836 between July and December eight ships came across to Kangaroo Island and aboard two of those boats were Col William Light aboard the HMS Rapid and George Strickland Kingston aboard the HMS Cygnet. They both set off to survey the coastline and found a bigger land mass for the colonists to settle on and this is when they came across
The Aborigines Protection Act 1909 (NSW) was a law that changed Indigenous Australian lives forever. The act enabled the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines to essentially control the lives of Aboriginal people. It was the Aborigines Protection Act 1909 (NSW) that had major provisions that resulted in the containment and suffering that Aboriginal people endured. This suffering included the practice of forcible removing Indigenous children from their families. These major provisions help us understand what the Aborigines Protection Act 1909 (NSW) involved and the impact it has had on the daily lives and cultures of Indigenous Australian peoples today.
Australia was first claimed by Captain Cook in early 1770, but it wasn’t settled until 1788 when the first fleet of 11 ships arrived at Botany Bay, carrying 1,530 passengers - mostly convicts, as well as some marines and officers. They moved to Port Jackson to begin establishing a settlement. Specific prisoners were chosen for the trip, the ones with skills in building, farming and other things that would have been useful to create a “liveable” environment for the new inhabitants. The first “free” settlers only arrived in 1793, thus beginning the colonisation of New South Wales.
The Australian Indigenous community hold extremely significant corrections to the land of Australia, of which they refer to as ‘Country.’ Indigenous people acquire deep meaning from the land, sea and the countless resources derived from them. This special relationship has formed for many centuries. To them ‘Country’ is paramount for overall wellbeing; the strong, significant, spiritual bonds embody their entire existence. Knowledge is continually passed down to create an unbroken connection of past,
There were many different ways in which Aboriginal people resisted the non-indigenous settlement of Australia. In 1770, James Cook first landed in Botany Bay, which was the home of the Eora People, and claimed the East Coast for Britain.
-White settlement affected the Indigenous people in a number of ways”{They} made them (the Aboriginals) outcasts on their own land*” by calling it terra nullius under the English Law, despite knowing the existence of the Aboriginals. Terra nullius is a latin term that means “land that belongs to no one.”They believed it belonged to no one because the Aboriginals didn’t use the land in the same way as the British. The Aboriginals believed that Mother Nature would provide them with what they needed, so they didn’t need to hunt and mark the land. The British completely ignored the deep spiritual connections the Aboriginals had with the land. They cut down trees, put up fences and built towns. They believed they had to own the land. But the Aboriginals were outraged when saw the settlers building farms where they had originally been hunting and gathering at, this was because there wasn’t enough food for them. They killed many white settlers in revenge and a clash of cultures began. Pemulwuy was an Aboriginal warrior that lead raids against the British. He also speared John McIntyre, Governor Phillip's gamekeeper, in December 1790. When the Indigenous people resisted the British, it lead to many conflicts which eventually left a irreversible damage to the lives of Indigenous people.
The social views towards Aboriginal people portrayed in the film are far more destructive than those in the novel. In the time period of the film, 1931, the Chief Protector of Aboriginals in Western Australia, A.O. Neville, strongly believes in trying to ‘breed out’ the Aboriginal blood by forcibly removing half-caste children, who are half Aboriginal and half European from their homes and putting them in institutions such as Moore River Settlement in order to stop them from marrying members of their own race. The underlying purpose of ‘Moore River Settlement’ becomes especially clear when Neville explains to potential sponsors of the facility “the continual infiltration of blood will be bred out….in spite of himself, the native must be helped”. This mindset about Native Australians and the idea of trying to eliminate them for their own benefit is of great contrast to the one presented in the novel.
Penal colonies are places when some send their inmates to be exiled. It was said that about 160,000 people were brought into Australia. Many Europeans decided to immigrate to Australia and because of this and after a while the economy and colonies of Australia, under the British rule, started to grow (Austrailian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade).
The first fleet arrived at Botany Bay on the 18th of January 1788 which was later declared as an official prison. The Captain of the fleet, Captain Phillips however found out that the harbour was in lack of fresh water therefore was unsuitable for conviction. The fleet then redirected to Port Jackson which then marked the official first European landing on Sydney Harbour.
The patterns of change and continuity in Australia at the time of federation influenced Australia to become its own nation through the creation of the Australian identity. At time of Federation, the majority of people living in the Australian colonies were Australian-born. Colonists were also starting to see themselves as Australian, not as British. This meant people wanted their own identity that didn’t link back to Britain. The way of life in Australia helped build the identity, which was shaped by its differences to the typical Britain life. This was affected by the native flora and fauna, the weather and activities, sports and hobbies. There was also a change in the styles of literature and art, becoming more specifically Australian. This contributed to the growing national identity. For example, the popular oil canvas painting named Near Heidelburg by Arthur Streeton (Source 4.41, page 196, Oxford Big Ideas Australian Curriculum History 9) depicts the grasslands of Australia, and shows how people dressed accordingly to the weather. The change of the crops grown in Australia due to the climate, impacted the lifestyle of the people living in the colonies. This is a different landscape to Britain’s, where most of the population had
After the bombing of Darwin during World War 2 that was caused by the Japanese and the constant fear of the Japanese invading again, the federal government gave out a report that Australia needed a larger population by about 1% each year to increase the defence of Australia as by having more people, there would be more people to fight and leave less empty spots in Australia. The federal Department of Immigration was created in 1945 to find ways of getting more people to Australia from different countries. The Assisted Passage Migration Scheme or otherwise known as the Ten Pound Poms was created in 1945 to promote and encourage British people to migrate to Australia. The government 's need to get Australia a higher population was known as 'populate or perish ' which meant that either Australia populates to improve defence or gets invaded (perished).
Within the 1600s the dutch were the first europeans to reach australia, although in 1770 James Cook claimed australia for britain. Australia still had been distant, forty thousand years ago the first settlers had probably been citizens from southeast asia. But it was known that the first years of settlement were nearly disastrous. Supposedly the land had been cursed with spoiled soil, unfamiliar climate,
Noel Pearson’s speech ‘an Australian history for us all’ discusses his approach to trying to solve some of the most systemic problems facing Australian Aboriginals today. The speakers are successful in understanding the ideas and values of the speech. Through the uses of various language techniques and context, Pearson’s speech details the struggles of the relationship between the first European settlers and Aboriginal Australians.
The construction of Aboriginality in Australia has been achieved through a variety of processes, in various places and at various levels of society, giving rise to a complex interaction between the constructions. At the local level, the most striking line of tension may seem to lie between what Aboriginal people say about themselves and what others say about them. But crosscutting this is another field of tension between the ideas of Aboriginality (and non-Aboriginality) that people of all kinds construct and reproduce for themselves, and the constructions produced at the national level by the state in its various manifestations, the mass media, science, the arts and so on (Beckett, 1988).
Ironically, the civilised people who brought the ‘improvements’ could not cope to live in peace with the natives, where countless Aboriginal lives vanished under the ‘superior’ governance of the new settlers. Regardless which part of the continent including Tasmania, the history has shown many unfair