![]() ![]() Since its inception, the Australian government has often been hostile to Aboriginal Australians and actively suppressed their traditional culture, which it considered detrimental to white Australian society. ![]() The colonists also introduced alcohol and tobacco, creating a substance abuse problem that persists today. British settlers appropriated arable land and water resources, making it difficult for indigenous communities to survive they were further decimated by infectious and venereal disease, which the settlers brought with them. When James Cook, an English explorer, arrived in 1770, hundreds of thousands of Aboriginal Australians lived in settled and nomadic communities however, Cook “claimed” the continent for the United Kingdom and a colonial government soon took hold. Traveling by boat from Southeast Asia, the first indigenous Australians arrived in the continent between 30,000 and 60,000 BCE. ![]()
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