Warning Please be aware that this digital curriculum resource may contain references to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who may have passed away. Resistance R5489 'Whiteout (bleached and banished)', With permission of Darryl Pfitzner Milika. Reproduced courtesy of History Trust of South Australia. Artwork by Darryl Pfitzner Milika. © Education Services Australia Ltd and the National Museum of Australia, 2010, except where indicated otherwise

How did Indigenous Australians resist British colonisation? Resistance © Education Services Australia Ltd and the National Museum of Australia, 2010, except where indicated otherwise British occupation of Australia began in The British authorities believed they were legally entitled to occupy the land and set up a permanent jail for convicts. Later, most immigrants believed that they were legitimate settlers in a new land. R6798 Painting of the First Fleet in Sydney Cove, Reproduced courtesy of National Library of Australia. Artwork by John Allcot.

Resistance © Education Services Australia Ltd and the National Museum of Australia, 2010, except where indicated otherwise To Indigenous people, however, this was their land where they had once lived under their own rules in their own ways. Now, they were forced to accept the laws and new ways of the newcomers. The newcomers had not been invited and were generally not welcomed. R3365 'Group of natives of Tasmania'. From the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Artwork by Robert Dowling.

xxx? Resistance © Education Services Australia Ltd and the National Museum of Australia, 2010, except where indicated otherwise The lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were profoundly changed by the arrival of British colonists in Lives were lost and land was taken as the colonisers attempted to impose new social, economic and religious orders. New animals, plants and diseases were introduced. The question that every Indigenous person faced was: how do we react to this situation? R4024 Indigenous Australians defending their land, c1817. Reproduced courtesy of National Library of Australia. Artwork by Joseph Lycett. R8561 'Mr Robinson's first interview with Timmy', Reproduced courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Artwork by Benjamin Duterrau. R10761 Indigenous students at school, c1941. From the collection of the National Archives of Australia. Photograph by Australian National Travel Association.

Resistance © Education Services Australia Ltd and the National Museum of Australia, 2010, except where indicated otherwise This unit looks at four examples of Aboriginal people’s reactions to the British occupation of Australia that started in Yagan (c1795–1833) in south-western Western Australia Fanny Balbuk (1840–1907) in south-western Western Australia Bilin Bilin (c1820–1901) in south-eastern Queensland Kamalyarrpa Japanangka (or ‘Bullfrog’) and the 1928 Coniston Massacre in central Australia