NURSING 0/3: Report on Colonization's Impact on Indigenous Australians

This report explores the devastating impact of colonization on Indigenous Australians. It highlights the significant loss of life, with around 20,000 Aboriginal people killed due to colonial violence. The report delves into the social and economic consequences, including limited opportunities, poor nutrition, and inadequate education. It examines the introduction of diseases like smallpox, measles, and influenza, which drastically reduced the Indigenous population. The study also addresses the dispossession of land and the resulting conflicts. The colonization process led to the violation of Indigenous rights and negatively affected their health through increased disease rates and violent conflicts. The report references Griffiths, Coleman, Lee, & Madden (2016) and Paradies (2016) to support its findings.

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Effects of colonization on
indigenous people in Australia

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Effects of colonization on indigenous people in Australia
The colonization of Australia had a devastating impact on the indigenous consumers
who have lived in this place of thousands of years. It is observed that around 20,000
aboriginal consumers were killed because of colonial violence at the time of this era of the
Australian past. The social and economic impacts are also linked with colonization on
indigenous consumers because of the lack of opportunities, poor nutrition and inadequate
education. A recent study identified that between 1788 and 1900, the indigenous
population in Australia was decreased by 90% because of major three factors including the
introduction of new health disorders, setter acquisition of lands and direct and violence-
related conflict with the colonizers in Australia.
It is observed that the increment in the health diseases is a major impact of
colonization on indigenous consumers where the consumers were suffered from smallpox,
measles and influenza in the last few years. Paradies, (2016) identified that many
immediate consequences of colonization problem were increased the rate of influenza kind
of disease that spread the settlement frontier and also defeated numbers of indigenous
associations. A recent study provided by Governor Phillip observed that smallpox affected
thousands of consumers in Sydney and most of indigenous were killed because of this
health disease. Because of the colonization, more than 56% of indigenous women in
Australia were suffered from sexual harassment and abuse and also produced venereal
disorder in epidemic possessions. It is identified that dispossession is another key factor
that has occurred due to colonization and indigenous consumers also faced violence-
related problems.
The extension of British settlements, involving the foundation of provinces in Van
Diemen's Land, Adelaide, Moreton Bay and Port Phillip, brought about challenge over land
and assets, and rapidly lead to savagery. It is very significant to detect that throughout the
colonization procedure, indigenous individuals in Australia continuously fought the breach
of their rights towards the lands. Moreover, it is argued that the issue of colonization
impacts on the cultures and communities of indigenous individuals in Australia. A recent
survey estimated that around 20,000 aboriginal consumers were killed because of the

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colonial violence and abuse and more than 2,000 settlers were killed because of the
frontier conflict (Griffiths, Coleman, Lee, & Madden, 2016). Therefore, it is stated that the
colonization negatively impacts on the indigenous individuals in Australia and also
increased the rate of health diseases and violent conflict with negatively affected the health
of aboriginal consumers in last few years.

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References
Griffiths, K., Coleman, C., Lee, V., & Madden, R. (2016). How colonisation determines social
justice and Indigenous health—a review of the literature. Journal of Population
Research, 33(1), 9-30.
Paradies, Y. (2016). Colonisation, racism and indigenous health. Journal of Population
Research, 33(1), 83-96.