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The Frontier Wars is a very sensitive topic that needs to be addressed properly and carefully due to the sadness and brutality experienced by First Nations Peoples. The frontier wars was a series of conflicts, massacres, wars and fights between the European colonisers and First Nation's Peoples. They first began when the First Fleet arrived in 1788 however they continued to the 1930s. Sadly, the colonisers 'goal' for these wars was to gain land and kill the First Nations Peoples in their way.
Massacre Case Study-The Black War
The Black War (1824-1831) in Tasmania was one of the most brutal and violent wars that happened during the Frontier wars. The war spanned across 7 year and over 1000 people were killed. It started due to the influx of colonisers in Tasmania taking over the agricultural land of First Nations Peoples.
This article here dives deeper into the frontier wars.
Many Aboriginal people were killed by introduced diseases during this time. There is still much contention over whether any of these diseases, particularly smallpox, were intentionally introduced. Small pox was a wide ranging epidemic which killed many throughout NSW, VIC and QLD, significantly reducing the Aboriginal population. Flu, measles, venereal diseases and tuberculosis also ravaged communities. (SBS, 2013)
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