The continued statements that the aboriginal lands were never ceded simply defies the facts.

To cede is to surrender, to give up, relinquish, or hand over.

Never in the history of conquest has land been ceded by the prior inhabitants so easily, with so little loss of life and with the use of only very limited military force. 

The conquest and settlement of Australia took over 130 years from 1770.   During this time there was possibly over 240 killings/conflicts between aboriginals and Europeans, seldom involving the military.

It will never be known how many Aboriginals were killed during this time but it may be estimated at 20,000

The University of Newcastle catalogued all the extrajudicial killings which occurred in Australia covering the 130 period involinvg 6 of more deaths.  The total listed is excess of 8,200 deaths.

It may be a formal surrender or it may involve a treaty where the original inhabitants agree to the

To have a formal surrender you would have to have one state fighting another state which would be at war.

To have a treaty

Or more commonly it simply involves inhabitants giving up or relinquish their lands to the country invading, settling or conquering the lands on which they live.

The British did not face any army.  The is over 250 language groups which are referred to as Aboriginal nations which were not nations.

The clashes under a literal interpretation may be best described as extrajudicial killings.

There has in recent times been an attempt to repeatedly use the reference to many of these killings as massacre.  This is entirely incorrect.

The term massacre, being a synonym of "butchery, carnage", is by nature hyperbolic or subjective.  It is primarily used in garner shock and awe   A massacre by definition should mean the killing of a significant number of relatively defenceless people.

A close examination of each alleged killing should consider were there a signficnat number of people and were those killed defenceless when they themselves had killed people prior and had spears and other weapons capably of killing.

There is no neutral definition of what constitutes a "massacre" although some authors using the term may lay down general "working definitions" of what they mean by the term.

  The majority of clashes resulted from an attack by aborgiines against land holders – possibly against agriculturist and their family or on their livestocks.  This attack then resulted in the local agriculturist banding together to hunt and kill the offending aboriginals … killing the band when they located them.

The continued statements that the aboriginal lands were never ceded simply defies the facts.  Europeans, principally the English pushed out across the nation.

Aboriginals were not attacked.  The lands they inhabited were granted to agriculturists in their expansion.  The aboriginals were given 3 choices:

1. move away or live peacefully with the agricultrist;

2. move onto missions largely operated by the Churches;

3. resist and fight against the expansion.

As the agriculturists took over and defended their land grants/farms, much of the aboriginals hunting grounds started to dimish.

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