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EUROPEANS first settled in Australia in 1788, Indigenous people had been
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living here for at least 40 000 years. The Indigenous people did not use the land
as most Australians do today, but this did not mean that they did not regard it as theirs.
However, this did not stop the European settlers from taking possession of it.
Origins of Indigenous people Radiocarbon dating of a number of ancient
The origins of Australia’s Indigenous people are human settlement sites in Australia suggests that
strongly debated, and many theories have been Indigenous people may have lived here for up to
proposed. Some say they have been here as long as 100 000 years, possibly much longer. For example, it
the Australian landmass has existed. Others believe has been estimated that the buried skeleton of a man
that they came here from somewhere else, most uncovered in 1975 on the ‘shores’ of Lake Mungo in
probably from lands to Australia’s north. Despite New South Wales (a lake that has been dry for some
these varying opinions, there is, however, unanimous 15 000 years) is about 40 000 years old. Human
agreement that Australia’s Indigenous people were its bones found at Keilor, Melbourne, are estimated to
first human inhabitants. be even older — possibly about 45 000 years old.
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claim. Bit by bit, the continent was claimed in the name of the British monarch, and
declared Crown land.
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26 January 1788, eleven British ships carrying about 1000 people sailed into
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Port Jackson on Australia’s east coast. Most on board were convicts, about to start
life in a penal colony.
Reaction of These ‘spirits of their former dead’ Reaction of the Europeans
did not speak their language.
Indigenous people Nor did they obey their rules and
In 1788, Europeans held a
Aboriginal people thought the first range of views about Australia’s
respect their rituals and sacred Indigenous people. In line with
Europeans they saw might have places. The view that they were
been ghosts, or evil spirits. Their thinking at the time, many of
invaders, not visitors, began to the more educated would have
Dreaming provided them with no take hold.
clues as to who these pale-skinned, regarded them as ‘noble savages’
Some Indigenous people may — primitive people who lived
strangely dressed people might have been puzzled or fascinated
be. Some wondered if they might a contented life in the natural
by the first Europeans they world without the pressures
be women, as they had no beards. saw; others were undoubtedly
Some tried to find a place for them of civilisation. The observant
frightened. When exploring the Captain Watkin Tench expressed
in their kinship system by treating Lachlan River in 1817, John
them as spirits of their dead, and a much more insightful view in
Oxley described how two young 1793. He said that those he had
offering them food and women. Indigenous men reacted to the
It soon became clear that the met possessed ‘. . . a considerable
sight of his party: ‘They trembled portion of that acumen, or
‘visitors’ planned to stay. They excessively, and, if the expression
were clearing land near sacred sharpness of intellect, which
may be used, were absolutely bespeaks genius’.
sites, fencing off properties, intoxicated with
which cut access to waterholes fear . . .’.
and hunting grounds, and fishing
without permission of the elders.
Besides, more and more of them
were arriving. Indigenous people
became increasingly worried.
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majority were convicts, many of settlements. Some found jobs as
whom had been brutalised. For 9cXZbd\e%N\n`j_kfdXb\pfl expedition guides for European
many, the view of the British _Xggp%9lkpflZXeefkY\_Xggp explorers; others became Native
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Indigenous people were ‘. . . the n_`k\d\e%%%c\Xiekfjg\Xb Bennelong, were captured and
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brutes’. *Efm\dY\i(/*/ encourage others to become more
Many Europeans would like them.
have been scared by the sight of
advancing dark-skinned, naked
men with bones in their noses
and ears. They would not have
understood that multi-scarred
chests and missing front teeth were
not meant to terrify. They were
signs of initiation the Indigenous
people wore proudly.
Be like us!
Captain Arthur Phillip, Australia’s
first governor, had been instructed
to do everything he could to
make friendly contact with the
‘natives’ and to ‘. . . live in amenity
[friendship] and kindness with
them’. Any Europeans who hurt or
killed Indigenous people were to
be punished.
The problem was that Europeans
expected Indigenous people to act
and live as they did. They could
not, for example, understand
why Indigenous people did not
have a god or churches, towns
or cultivated land. Their kinship
systems seemed especially odd
(where an ‘uncle’, for example, was
also a ‘father’). Most importantly,
they did not understand that the
land they were clearing for farms,
towns and pasture might contain
sacred sites that the traditional
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suggest the artist was
influenced by stereotypes?
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Indigenous people were ordered inevitably, die out, and tried to horses. They did try to fight back,
to live on special reserves. They make the process as painless as but had difficulty in sustaining
were told it was to protect them. possible. More heartless settlers their efforts. Their numbers were
Christian missionaries at first, saw them as ‘pests’ who kept also being very rapidly reduced
and later government officers, ‘camping’ on their farms and by introduced diseases, against
administered these reserves, ‘hunting’ their stock animals. which they had no resistance.
which included the Lake Condah These included measles, whooping
(Portland) and Coranderrk Control and conquer cough, influenza and smallpox.
(Healesville) reserves in Victoria In the decades that followed the
(see pages 16–17). Well-meaning arrival of the first Europeans,
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For 12 months, Yagan managed cockatoo feathers were tied to
to avoid capture, continuing to the head as decoration. It was
fight for his people. Then, in July exhibited in Liverpool until 1964
1833, he approached two shepherds when it was buried in Everton
he knew, asking for flour. When Cemetery. In 1997, almost 165
his back was turned, one of them, years after being sent to England,
William Keats, shot him. A Yagan’s head was returned to
reward was given for the killing Australia for a proper burial.
of Yagan, but the editorial of the Today, the remains of a great
Perth Gazette described it as a ‘wild many Aboriginal people are still
and treacherous act’: ‘We are not scattered throughout British
vindicating [forgiving] the outlaw, museums, causing great distress
but, we maintain it is revolting to Aboriginal communities.
to hear this lauded [praised] as a They believe the souls of their
meritorious [good] deed.’ ancestors cannot rest until their
Yagan’s head was sent to bodies are returned. So far, British
England in 1835. The hair was museums have been reluctant to K_\_\X[f]PX^Xe#gX`ek\[Yp
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‘could we have our freedom to go away shearing and
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harvesting, and come home when we wish’. Ebenezer Echuca
Hop production began in 1872; two years later the Bass Strait
0 125 250 km
people were also managing 450 head of cattle and
running a dairy. The reserve’s superintendent, a
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people develop their settlement. In 1874, however,
he was forced to resign after an argument with the By the 1880s, Coranderrk was making enough
Victorian Government. He wanted the Indigenous money, and harvesting enough food, to support itself.
people to retain more of the profits from the reserve’s In fact, it did so well that local European farmers and
hops farms. landholders were envious of its success. The problem
this posed for the residents of Coranderrk was that
they did not legally own the land. There was also
the view, popular at the time among many European
colonists, that it was the ‘manifold destiny’ (obvious
fate) of the Aboriginal people to eventually die out.
Hence, encouraging and promoting their efforts to
be self-sufficient and successful would be counter-
productive.
Coranderrk closes
The Board for the Protection of Aborigines had
wanted to close down Coranderrk since 1874. When
this prospect became an imminent risk, residents of
Coranderrk marched on the Victorian Parliament
in protest. Their actions prompted a government
inquiry and subsequent report, lodged in 1882. The
report criticised the board, recommending that the
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Four years later, however, the Victorian Aborigines moved to the mission station at Lake Tyers. In 1924,
Act of 1886 was passed, which did what the board Coranderrk was officially closed.
had been unable to do. People of mixed descent But the story continues. In recent years, Aboriginal
under the age of 34 were no longer allowed to live people have made efforts to reclaim Coranderrk.
on reserves. This order reduced Coranderrk’s able- In 1998, the Indigenous Land Corporation bought
bodied and enthusiastic workforce. Stock was sold, some land on the old reserve, which was returned to
and most of the remaining people on the reserve were descendants of the original community.
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surrounding islands for food.
what is now called the Torres Strait. Although it is
Here come the visitors … likely that others passed through these waters earlier,
Initial European contact was made in 1606 when the there is no evidence to support association with the
Spanish navigator Luis Vaez de Torres sailed through Islander people.
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After 1770, when Captain Cook
proclaimed part of Australia’s
eastern coast as Crown land (see
page 29 for more details), many
British ships favoured Torres
Strait as a passage to the Pacific.
It was not long, therefore, before
European pearlers and fishermen
began occupying the resource-rich
waters. Their competition with
Islanders for the sea’s resources
caused many confrontations.
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Europeans as permanent
residents
There was no significant
European impact on Islander life
until the arrival of the London
Missionary Society on Darnley
Island in 1871. The Islanders
generally embraced Christianity;
but this decision had a significant
impact on the way they lived.
For example, women now had to
completely cover their bodies and
discard any traditional accessories.
In the hot, equatorial climate,
such clothing would have been
uncomfortable; however, they
risked being disciplined by the
mission court if they did not
conform.
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discouraged traditional songs Yp=iXeb?lic\p
and dances in order to minimise
adherence to the ‘old ways’. Some with a type of job (for example, Controller, John Douglas, would
destroyed Islanders’ artefacts; Cook, Captain) and some from not allow Islanders to be classified
others were sold to passing ships or the Bible (for example, David, as Aboriginal people under the
buried. Matthew). Queensland Aborigines Protection
Islanders were also required to Initially, the Islanders enjoyed Act 1897. However, this changed
take a second name. These were more independence under with his death in 1904. Thursday
selected in a number of ways: some European control than did Island, for example, then became a
because they were the name of mainland Aboriginal people. European settlement that Islanders
known Europeans (for example, This was mainly because the could now only visit, and only
Joe, Tom), some by a connection then Queensland Government during the day.
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century systematically discriminated against
Islanders, deliberately limiting their freedom. They 8j]XiXjk_\<lifg\Xejn_fXii`m\[`ek_`jcXe[
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transferred to the islands of Moa and Kiriri. The
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government also appointed representatives for the Xe[Yl`ckg\idXe\ek[n\cc`e^jfe`k%K_XknXj
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replaced with elected Island Councils. @e(/./#k_\Kfii\jJkiX`k@jcXe[jn\i\ZcX`d\[c`b\
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in 1936 by staging a strike. It lasted nine months; the
outcome was that Island Councils were allowed to
have more substantial input into the management of
their boats and other affairs.
Side by side as soldiers
During World War II, around one-quarter of the
Islander population enlisted to fight, enjoying equal
treatment and acceptance alongside their fellow
Australian soldiers (even if receiving only half their
pay!). This experience was a turning point in the
attitudes of many white Australians (particularly
those who fought alongside Islanders), and former D\i@jcXe[#Zfddfecpi\]\ii\[kfXj
restrictions against Islanders began to be lifted. In DliiXp@jcXe[#fe\f]k_\dXepKfii\jJkiX`k@jcXe[j
1947, the first Islander was allowed on the mainland
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