Did Australians hunt Aborigines for fun?

This is a list of massacres from wikipedia List of massacres of Indigenous Australians - Wikipedia. In working with elderly Aboriginals I have heard of other massacres and poisonings in the past. But I never heard of 'hunting for fun'. read more

The other answers to this question provides a condensed approximation of the truth. However, there is a high possibility that the last massacre occurred in March 1923 when the steam ship Douglas Mawson was lost with all hands and passengers in the Gulf of Carpentaria due to the cyclone named for the lost ship. read more

After an affray in which 23 Aboriginals were shot and a policeman speared, a punitive expedition was launched in which another 30 Aboriginals were shot to "teach them a lesson" and instill fear of the white man into the indigenous population as a whole. read more

To deny Aboriginal people their role in the creation of the Australian landscape is to deny them their place in the history of Australia, and perpetuates the fiction of terra nullius - a land unowned and unmanaged (McNiven and Russell, in press). 2 Aboriginal hunting threatens the survival of endangered species. read more