The reason why the British colonised Australia was because of the fact that the British needed a place for their convicts to stay. So the convicts, soldiers and doctors set sail looking for a place to settle. That’s when they found Australia.
When the Aborigines first saw the British settlers they thought they were possums and thought the ships were over sized canoes with giant weird animal skins on the top of it.
When the British landed the Aborigines couldn’t tell which of them were men and which of them where women, because of the fact that they had cloths, all of this was very different for the Aborigines. It was very hard for the aborigines due to the way they were treated. Some of them were used as slaves, servants and a lot of them killed and kept in prison.
The British settlers destroyed the Aborigines land separating children and adults from there family. They brought a sickness to Australia called the smallpox, which killed a lot of the Aborigines quite quickly. When having the small pox you would notice a lot of white dots on your face. You would feel very cold at one stage and then feel very hot. The small pox was very contagious, so when an Aborigine had the small pox the rest of the clan would have to leave the sick behind letting them die. That’s why it was a terrible experience for the Aborigines to go through when the British colonized Australia.