Australia - Aborigines And European Settlers. Aborigines And White Settlers The Breaking Down of Aboriginal Society When the first European settlers arrived in 1788 the Aborigines were the sole occupants of Australia.
A hundred years later Aborigines no longer held much of the continent, and many Aboriginal groups were struggling for survival. Almost everywhere white settlement had proved overpowering. There had been no peaceful adjustment between whites and Aborigines, and the frontier between them had many times been marked in blood. Listen to the full I Have A Dream Speech and other speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King "I have a dream" Anti-Racism and Hate. Anti-racism.