When the one thousand British soldiers and convicts invaded Botany Bay in 1788, it was believed that there was an estimated six hundred different groups or ‘nations’ with distinctive cultures and beliefs around the continent. None of the British soldiers or convicts announced their arrival or told the Indigenous people their intentions with the land. This therefore caused great changes onto Aboriginal societies as many groups were taken away from their land. The first recorded use of Aboriginal trackers was in 1834, the British found the aboriginals very skilful in tracking people and also navigating through the Australian landscape. The Aboriginals had an unsuccessful resistance to the settlers’ occupation of the land, this was due to their
