Jake Winker Frogen
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They were never happy with the intruders from the very first contact
Actually, the first Europeans to meet the Australian Aboriginals were the Dutch in 1606 off the coast of what is now The Northern Territories of Australia. In 1628, the Dutch ship Batavia, on here way to the Dutch East Indies, ran aground on a small island chain off of Western Australia. The mutinied soon after the wreck and the women on board became the sex slaves of the mutineers. They found little water and no food and quickly turned to cannibalism.
The only sighted Aborigines twice, both times, the Aborigines ran away from them.
Yes, the WA Maritime museum has the reconstructed wreck and a lot of artefacts.
Still the Dutch never had colonisation plans, they thought there was really nothing to colonise.
They really wanted what was then the big prize, the spice trade in what is now Indonesia.
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