Analysis of Colonization's Impact on Indigenous Australian Communities

This report critically analyzes the diverse impacts of British colonization on Indigenous communities in Australia. It explores the pre-colonial lifestyles of Aboriginal people, highlighting their connection to the land and traditions. The report details the devastating consequences of colonization, including land dispossession, exposure to diseases, violence, and social exclusion. It examines the concept of terra nullius and its role in justifying the treatment of Indigenous Australians, as well as the lasting effects of the stolen generations, massacres, and denial of basic rights. The report further discusses the social and economic impacts, such as wage exploitation and social exclusion, which have resulted in intergenerational disadvantages. It concludes by emphasizing the enduring impact of colonization on Indigenous societies and the ongoing challenges in community development. The report uses multiple sources to support its claims and provides a comprehensive overview of the topic.

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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................................2
Lifestyle before and after colonization........................................................................................2
Conclusion......................................................................................................................................6
References.......................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Through this report the critical analysis will be conducted upon the identification of the
British colonization which has a diverse effect on the communities of indigenous people in
Australia along with those trails taken forward for their community development. Aboriginal
people are considered as first person in Australia, so they share a very unique position across the
country. They are also famous for being able to maintain a strong connection along with their
cultures, language and traditions. They have also contributed a lot in managing the environment
as well as the economic development and the cultural identity of the nation.
Lifestyle before and after colonization
Colonization basically explores the significance of stolen generations for the Aboriginal
as well as Torres Strait islander. It investigates the centrality of land for the Aboriginal
individuals, in connection to their social and religious convictions, and the importance of The
Dreaming, before thinking about the impact of bigot developmental hypothesis on the
Aborigines as people just as a network.
Before the arrival of the Britishers in Australia in the year 1788 there were many
different community of indigenous people living in Australian land for more than over 40.000
years. But their life at that time was very much different from that of today, at that time they
basically survived by doing activities like hunting and gathering. The male were to hunt the huge
animals for their daily diets, whereas the females and kids would collect fruits, plants and
barriers. They had basically used their lands for shelter, water, food and making weapon and
never overused or damaged it (Andersen, Edwards, & Wolfe, 2017).
Incoming of the Bruisers had a very severe as well as devastating impact upon the lives
of these people. Their lands got disposed, they got exposed to a number of new diseases and

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even got involved in violent and conflicts which further had resulted in death of a vast number of
these people. But the little number of individuals who were not dead were also not left
unaffected. This thus proves that the white settlers had a huge impact upon the lives of the
indigenous people and would continue to have it for generations and forever (Calma, 2005)
The primary purpose in the back of the numerous Indigenous individuals who couldn’t
just get during the last are essentially given that the detrimental consequences of colonization are
yet affecting Indigenous people consistently and frequently in unusual ways. The insights are an
aftereffect of the waiting treacheries of colonization - dispossession, removal, misuse and
viciousness that commenced from the outset contact. This behavior in the direction of Indigenous
individuals turned into legitimized by means of the British pioneer framework that did not get,
regard or really worth Indigenous Australians (Griffiths, et al., 2019).
The social and monetary impact of intrusion and control of Indigenous individuals has
collected crosswise over ages. It became intensified through preparations and practices that have
methodically distraught Indigenous people. In numerous examples, this has added about the
transmission of damage, neediness and one of a kind sorts of burden from age to age. So the
weakness we see nowadays is regularly the long haul effect of absence of chances in beyond
ages, which includes terrible sustenance and deficient education and medicinal offerings
(Nogrady, 2019).
The reason of British colonization was land nullius, a lawful term which asserted the land
in Australia had a place for nobody. This glaringly prevented the presence from securing
Indigenous Australians as individuals. According to this legal term it was declared that
indigenous people does not come under the category of humans. The basis of the relation here

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was the inception on which the people of nation and state worked. This formed a very
problematic relationship which is not getting fully resolved even till today (humanrights, 2015).
Pilgrim controls never went into arrangements with Indigenous individuals about the
taking of their territories. The absence of bargain or affirmation of attack is one of the key
themes in exchanges about Constitutional Recognition in 2017. The absence of settlement in
Australia goes to the very heart of the injury in Australia nation. Whereas the numerous
Indigenous individuals keep on inclination the torment of occupation, dispossession and absence
of acknowledgment. The nonattendance of a good buy recommends a non-stop forswearing of
the presence, earlier occupation and dispossession of Indigenous individuals in Australia. It
moreover features a scarcity of dedication and connection among Indigenous and non-
Indigenous Australians (recognition, 2010).
There were a number of these people who were fighting for colonizers and their
homelands also the living standards, but these battles or the struggles are completely omitted
from the Commemoration history of wars in Australia. The exclusion of opposition wars from
history has left most Australians without having any information of their own history. It speaks
to Indigenous individuals as inactive suggesting Indigenous individuals didn't battle for their
nation and strengthening unfavorable stereotyping of Indigenous individuals as lethargic and
clumsy. Through the refusal of obstruction wars, Aboriginal Australians haven't been
surrendered the poise because of commendable rivals (. Lee, 2017).
According to Massacres, a huge number of population was devastated and were deprived
of their basic and positive human qualities or rights due to the process of colonizers in order to
justify all the horrific acts against them. Whereas Massacres have a very diverse impact in
today’s lifestyle also. Much of the time, these occasions brought about loss of social learning as

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whole ages or family gatherings were killed. This thus prompted an emergency of personality
and having a place for some Indigenous individuals which keeps on affecting individuals in the
present. Reality with regards to slaughters has been let well enough alone for our national history
and numerous Australians are stunned when they come to acknowledge what truly occurred in
towns and spots where they currently live The absence of affirmation of those occasions nullifies
the encounters and enduring of several Indigenous individuals and is a progressing wellspring of
torment (Andersen, Edwards, & Wolfe, 2017).
Numerous Indigenous individuals were misused on the basis of the work so done for
missions, holds, cow’s stations and as local assistants in non-Indigenous homes. Numerous
Indigenous Australians have never been paid wages earned over many years of hard work. This
problem of non-payment of the wages is still contributing for the transmission of disadvantages
that to across the generations (Griffiths, et al., 2019).
Social exclusions since the appearance of the British in the eighteenth century,
Indigenous individuals have been minimized in all parts of life. Being denied support in the
standard social framework implied being denied the rights and benefits of that framework. Up
until the 1960's, Indigenous individuals were denied access to certain open spaces and were
avoided from the national statistics. Over ages, individuals were additionally denied access to
human services, training and work based on their race. These people are still remaining amongst
the one who are basically excluded socially in Australia. Proof of Indigenous social rejection
contains modern high paces of destitution, imprisonment, joblessness, vagrancy, weak point and
shortage of guidance results (Nogrady, 2019).
Since the earliest of the time the British community always tried to reduce the laws
made for the indigenous societies, culture as well as the beliefs. Notwithstanding Indigenous

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people's endeavors to preserve up and resuscitate lifestyle notwithstanding colonization, there is
no denying that colonization has profoundly affected Indigenous societies, social orders, and
dialects crosswise over Australia. This has strongly affected individuals' feelings of man or
woman and having an area - which includes importance to a person's presence. Social
detachment and the debilitating of character is the essential motive for a large lot of the battles
Indigenous people are dealing with today (recognition, 2010).
Major effects of the British colonization upon these people are as follows
 Somewhere in the range of 1788 and 1900, the Aboriginal populace of Australia was
decreased by 90%.
 Presentation of the latest diseases lacks individuals through direct battling with a lack of
European pilgrims land.
 Sicknesses Count- The most spark off the result of British agreement was the presence of
European illnesses. Chickenpox Smallpox Influenza Measles. As these ailments have
been impossible to resist, they unfold rapidly and slaughtered numerous people. In
widespread Aboriginal human’s organization, the maladies spread appreciably extra
swiftly.
 The most activate end result of British agreement changed into the presence of European
ailments. Chickenpox Smallpox Influenza Measles. As those illnesses have been not
possible to withstand, they unfold hastily and slaughtered several people. In extensive
Aboriginal human beings' business enterprise, the maladies spread appreciably more
hastily.(Hutchings, Bainbridge, Bodle, & Miller, 2019)

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Conclusion
Colonization has diversely changed the world and its scenario. The horrendous history
upon the various ways in which the Aboriginal individuals were treated by those colonizing in
this nation and the ways in which the government-authorized and church-endorsed frameworks
sustained the injury into the twentieth century. These people had suffered a lot due to the
oppression of State which was done either by the choice of these people themselves or by the
circumstantial perspective.

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