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Within weeks of the first colonists' arrival – was a wave of European epidemic diseases such as chickenpox, smallpox, influenza and measles, which spread in advance of the frontier of settlement.
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The combination of disease, loss of land and direct violence reduced the Aboriginal population by an estimated 90% between 1788 and 1900.
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After the first settlery came to australia the took the aboriginals as their slaves.
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In 1838 8 white men were hung over the death of 28 black men. This was the first time something like this had happend.
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In the 1850's Australia had the gold rush. Aboriginal men, women and childern worked. there were not paid much money but they were given food, clothes and other basic stuff.
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the first australian cricket team was made up of aboriginals. They went and toured england in 1868
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Nearly all of them (tasmainia aboriginals), apparently numbering somewhere between 2 000 and 15 000 when white settlement began, were dead by the 1870s.
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Trugernanner was the last 'full blood' aboringinal to die in tasmainia.
