After white settlement took place in 1788, during the 100 year time period it took Europeans to gain all land, many massacres occurred. The main reason that violence and conflict occurred was because the Europeans deemed the Aboriginal People’s sacred land ‘terra nullius’, meaning no-mans land, and used it for farming and agricultural purposes causing many of the native animals originally hunted by the Aboriginal People to decline in numbers due to habitat loss. This resulted in many of them having to go on without no food or a very minimal amount for long periods of time and also meant that they had lost their sacred land for worshipping and praying leaving the Indigenous Australians extremely annoyed and angry at the Europeans. As the white settlers declared themselves superior to the Aboriginal People as they thought that they were less human than they were due to their pigment and they way they lived and went about their daily lives. The Aboriginal People continued to resist the European and they begun killing shepherds who walked on their sacred land along with all the cattle he was leading. This caused the European to fight back and in return kill the Indigenous Australians and plan massacres to slaughter them to try and kill the whole population.
The effects of these massacres were enormous and the biggest effect was the decline of the Indigenous Australian population. More than 20,000 Aboriginal People were murdered as well as a further 2,000 European settlers. Between the late 18th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century, the experiences of the Aboriginal People were extremely harsh and mean. They had to face being massacred, having their rights stolen, land taken away, traditions wiped and family stolen to work on mission stations in attempt to become more human. Paternalism came into play where the Europeans would control and make the Aboriginal People obey orders no matter what they were as well as Social Darwinism being introduced. Settlers believed that because they thought the Indigenous population would eventually die out anyway due to other countries migrating to Australia, so they would study them and kill them like a scientific experiment. As the years went by, the whites began to try and breed out the Indigenous Australian population in attempt to achieve a white Australia.
The effects of these massacres were enormous and the biggest effect was the decline of the Indigenous Australian population. More than 20,000 Aboriginal People were murdered as well as a further 2,000 European settlers. Between the late 18th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century, the experiences of the Aboriginal People were extremely harsh and mean. They had to face being massacred, having their rights stolen, land taken away, traditions wiped and family stolen to work on mission stations in attempt to become more human. Paternalism came into play where the Europeans would control and make the Aboriginal People obey orders no matter what they were as well as Social Darwinism being introduced. Settlers believed that because they thought the Indigenous population would eventually die out anyway due to other countries migrating to Australia, so they would study them and kill them like a scientific experiment. As the years went by, the whites began to try and breed out the Indigenous Australian population in attempt to achieve a white Australia.