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'''Why might the white people have chosen to fight with the aboriginals instead of co-existing with them? ''' Nigel Parbury believed that "the greed, fear and intolerance of most squatters made peaceful co-existence on the plains impossible" Most squatters thought that a squatting license entitled them to exclude aboriginals. Land was taken for farming and the pastoral industry. Many of the native animals were slaughtered. Different cultures clashed as their beliefs were very different and neither understood the other.

Explain the impact of massacres on the Eora nation In 1837 governor Burke tried to stop the keeping of aboriginal women, many of whom had been taken by force. By 1850 the Sydney clans were virtually extinct They believed aboriginal Australians were inferior, savage and in the way of civilization Murder was allowed to happen and man of those who were supposed to uphold the law actually joined in on the murder Elders lost "authority within the aboriginal community as white people did not respect their position, culture or laws. Aboriginal peoples lost the will to live Clans fled their normal areas of living Troopers were sent not to protect the aboriginal Australians, but to murder them. Myall creek was the first time that those responsible for murdering aboriginals were brought to justice.