Mind Map of Colonisation of Australia - Mind Map Assignment

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Mind Map Assignment:

This mind map describes the process of Colonisation, which is a process of movement by a large number of immigrants to a new land, establishing their colony and forcefully feeding their new culture to inhabitants of that location. From my understanding colonisation has been developed by a series of events which caused a lot of impacts. The Colonisation began in 1788 when the first fleet arrived with 11 ships containing British convicts and soldiers landed on the eastern side of the country. Most of the convicts were farmers or labors so they did not just move a group of convicts but they moved the whole new society. The founder Captain James Cook considered the land as “terra nullius” - land belongs to no one. (Barta, 1987). So they never had any negotiations with the inhabitants of the land thus this lead them to a big conflict between the indigenous and the British colonists. They started seizing their lands and causing the aboriginals to move away towards the reserves. There were massacres everywhere during that time as aborigines tried to preserve their land and the British colonials were trying to capture the lands for their settlers. Around 20000 of indigenous and 2500 colonials were killed during the battle between the two (Reynolds, 2006). After centuries passed the conflict never seemed to go away despite the government decided to give the aboriginals the freedom to work for them as their labors but they were never considered as their people. According to Behrendt 2012, the Australian government decided to introduce the Assimilation policy in 1960. This would help the government to get rid of aboriginals by wiping them out by letting them become extinct naturally. They were refused of any service of any kind from the society, even hospitals excluded for them. They removed their children from them and forced them to follow the European culture and often used as cheap labor. Their own culture and tradition were at risk and even they were not allowed to talk in their own language.