Was Australia Settled Or Invaded By The Europeans?

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Was Australia Settled Or Invaded By The Europeans?

By Atif Yamin

Was Australia settled by Europeans or did they invade the territory which was owned by the Aboriginal people? For many years the Australian public has believed that Europeans peacefully settled in Australia. The Aborigines clearly inhabited the country before the Europeans settled in Australia. Historically, the Aborigines have been in Australia up to forty-thousand years before the obvious invasion by the Europeans.

The Europeans invaded the land disregarding the will of the Aborigines and despite the resistance from them. When the first settlers arrived at Australia they declared it was uninhabited by humans even though they saw Aboriginals already settled in Australia. The Europeans did not even buy their own land. The Europeans just came to Australia and made their own laws and took all the land they wanted, divided the land into farms, houses, and stations and sold land to other settlers. They did this even though the official instructions by the King were to "grant unoccupied lands." The Law imported from England said that property rights had to be respected but in WA the law was ignored.

The Europeans did not understand the