How Did Australia Interact With The European Convicts

Australia is a colony first established by a group of European convicts, who were sent to Australia on 806 ships. We all recognise that the first settlers came to Australia on the First Fleet, but in fact there were many European convicts that arrived on different ships. There were many challenges that they had to face when they reached Australia. The main challenges were dealing with the lack of food, extreme isolation and surviving with the Indigenous Australians. These issues all proved to be very challenging and some were overcome better than others.

One of the most important aspects of life is food and when the convicts arrived at Australia they found it hard to grow. Not only did farmers have to grow food for themselves, but if they had families they had to grow food for both themselves and their family members. When they arrived in Australia they found an infertile country which was not able to be farmed. In Europe they weren't used to having bushfires, droughts, extreme …show more content…
Indigenous Australians felt as though they were being pushed out of their traditional land. They originally wanted to become friends with the new Australian convicts but they didn't want anything to do with them. Indigenous Australians knew everything about Australia and the European convicts should've used the help of the Indigenous people instead of pushing them away. On the 29th of May, 1788 two convict workers were killed by Indigenous Australians. Phillip arranged an expedition to punish them which further damaged the relationship between the Indigenous Australians and the convicts, which eventually led to the frontier war. (King, 1982) The frontier war was a war between the Indigenous Australians and the European Settlers which spanned for a total of 142 years. The war was a direct impact of the European convicts invading the Indigenous Australians spiritual land, which is now known as