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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. In 1837 governor Burke tried to stop the keeping of aboriginal women, many of whom had been taken by force.

Explain the impact of massacres on the Eora nation