Was there a British 'genocide' of Aboriginal Australians?

During his 1836 stay, all of the indigenous people of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand were in the midst of a catastrophic population crash from ... A few years after the First Fleet dropped anchor, Britain established a penal colony at Botany Bay and started shipping convicts to farm the land there. read more

Richard Weston, chief executive of the national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation, told Guardian Australia: “Whilst genocide may or may not have been the intent of the stolen generations policy, it is undeniable that the impact of forcibly removing children from their families, their country and their language was not designed to support the continuance of our 60,000-year-old culture. read more

Baal Belbora, the end of the dancing: the agony of the British invasion of the ancient people of Three Rivers: the Hastings, the Manning & the Macleay, in New South Wales Apcol 1981. ANU. : 35 (citing Aboriginal history, Volumes 6-8) Broome, Richard (2005). Aboriginal Victorians: a history since 1800. Allen & Unwin. : 80; Clark, Ian D (1995). read more

The genocide of indigenous peoples is the mass destruction of entire communities of indigenous peoples. Indigenous peoples are understood to be people whose historical and current territory has become occupied by colonial expansion, or the formation of a state by a dominant group such as a colonial power. read more