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Since 1998 Australia has acknowledged the harms caused to Indigenous Australians in a National Sorry Day on May 26. [87] In 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, on behalf of the Australian Parliament, deliver an apology to the stolen generations and to all Indigenous Australians who had suffered because of the unjust government policies of the past.
Indigenous Australians led by Pemulwuy also conducted raids around Parramatta during the period between 1795 and 1802. These attacks led Governor Philip Gidley King to issue an order in 1801 which authorised settlers to shoot Indigenous Australians on sight in Parramatta, Georges River and Prospect areas. [30]
Telegram sent from Broome, Western Australia, 20 July 1907; recorded by Postmaster-General's office . Colonial settlers frequently clashed with Indigenous people (on continental Australia) during and after the wave of mass immigration of Europeans into the continent, which began in the late 18th century and lasted until the early 20th.
According to historian David Stannard, the encomienda was a genocidal system which "had driven many millions of native peoples in Central and South America to early and agonizing deaths." [ 108 ] The Spanish and Portuguese genocides of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas wiped out approximately 90% of the indigenous population, and most ...
Fatal Collisions: The South Australian Frontier and the Violence of Memory. Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press. ISBN 978-1-86254-533-5. Foster, Robert; Nettelbeck, Amanda (2012). Out of the Silence: The History and Memory of South Australia's Frontier Wars. Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press. ISBN 978-1-74305-039-2.
T.A. Browne became a popular author, writing as Rolf Boldrewood, and wrote a chapter about the Eumeralla war in his book Old Melbourne Memories (1896). [25] Before I arrived and took up my abode on the border of the great Eumeralla mere, there had been divers quarrels between the old race and the new.
The Waterloo Creek massacre (also Slaughterhouse Creek massacre) refers to a series of violent clashes between mounted settlers, civilians and Indigenous Gamilaraay people, which occurred southwest of Moree, New South Wales, Australia, during December 1837 and January 1838. [1]
However, by the second generation of contact, many groups in south-eastern Australia were gone. [97] The greatest cause of death was disease, followed by settler and inter-Indigenous killings. [97] This population loss was further exacerbated by an extremely low birth rate. [98]