Impact of British Colonization on Indigenous Australian Community

Identify and discuss how British colonization affected Indigenous Australian community
structure and pathways forward for community development.
Case Study

Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Identify Critical Issues.....................................................................................................................2
Analysis...........................................................................................................................................4
Recommendations............................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
The indigenous Australian have been facing different issues which are related to the change in
the lifestyle of people, with different policies that are brought in. The policies have a major affect
on how the indigenous Australians live, with inflictions on varying widely with policies of
assimilation, protection and integration. These have negative impacts on community with major
loss of identity, language and religion. The policies for self-determination and reconciliation has
a major positive effect that led to a strong bond between black and white Australians. (Jarvis et
al., 2018). The British confiscated the larger amount of Aboriginal land, thereby, forcing the
natives out. Not only this, the British confiscated the lands which they used for different natural
resources.
Identify Critical Issues
The British tried to destroy the culture of the people, with the British ideals on Aboriginals, that
included the education and wearing of clothes. In an effort to educate the natives, the British
were able to set up a school for Aboriginal children who refused to send their children to school,
and British people took the children by force. It was seen that the people could not easily practice
the culture mainly because the white people were trying to take them away and making their
lived harder. The impact of British was also dispossessed where there were Aborigines that were
pushed back from fertile lands along the coats to the deserts and in Tasmania they were
exterminated. There was a loss of land with hunting grounds and few resources of food (Bennett
& Liu, 2018). The disease has been a major problem, where the aborigines had no resistance to
the British diseases from measles to flu. There were people who were seen to be dead when the
epidemics for the disease tend to sweep through the camps. The British also introduced the
different venereal diseases at the time of loss of culture which resulted from British people