Foxy, you do realise that more non aboriginal people live remote and very remote than aboriginal people don’t you? That is, according to Commonwealth Health Department figures.
And all these non aboriginal people have to exist with even less health services than aboriginal people do, because they only have the mainstream health services, unlike aboriginal people who have access to two health services.
And you do realise that people such as I raised healthy children in these areas, more remote than you can imagine at times, without even power or running water.
Perhaps you can explain why one section of the population can live healthy lives in these areas but the other half cannot, given equal, even better services for some.

Big Nana,

Read the link from Enc. Britannica that I
cited to Individual.

It explains a great deal.

Hi Foxy and Mr Opinion. You do both realise that many of the first settlers could actually read and write and have left behind thousands of first hand observations in letters and journals. Some of these have now been published online by universities and historical societies. I suggest you start with this one. It’s very informative and may surprise you as to how accepting many of the first settlers were about aboriginal customs.

http://heritage.darebinlibraries.vic.gov.au/Assets/Files/AU7005.pdf

Big Nana,

I've worked in State and University Libraries
amongst many other Insitutions of Learning -
and have catalogued vast collections as well
as oral histories on the subject.

This is taken from just one book I enjoyed
reading:

Did you know that one of the most problematic of
Arthur Phillip's responsibilities when he was
dispatched to Port Jackson and given the task of
founding a new colony in the alien southern continent
stemmed from an instruction given by King George III
of England to the effect that the governor of the
new colony should:

"endeavour, by every possible means, to open an
intercourse with the natives, and to conciliate their
affections, enjoining all subjects to live in amity
and kindness with them".

This was in the days when people still took instructions
from George III relatively seriously - before he
began ordering people to move Buckingham Palace to
Antarctica and knighting giraffes and so forth - so
young Arthur felt he should at least make an effort to
do as he was told.

This was awkward, though, as the local Indigenous
population wasn't particularly keen to have any kind of
intercourse opened up with the people who had turned up
uninvited and started clogging up the land with their huge
ugly animals and weird dyhing crops and ill-mannered
men with incredibly lax attitudes to gun safety.

It wasn't that the Eora'people who were living in the
Port Jackson area at the time weren't a friendly bunch:
it's just that they realised early on that the benefits
of multiculturalism were basically restricted to bullets
and smallpox, and no matter how many dinner party
invitations the governor sent them, continuing to breathe
was a more attractive option.

There you go.

Big Nana,

It's easy to see your interests lie in the area of social history of contact Australia and your views are shaped by the way everyday people have interacted with each other.

I was initially trained in anthropology and ended up wanting to be a sociologist because I like studying everything and sociology lends itself to that. A couple of decades ago I actually managed to get myself registered with a couple of dozen Aboriginal Land Councils for social impact assessment albeit I never got an opportunity to work on a project.

I'm interested in the big structural issues which have been shaped by social elites and institutions of power and governance. I see the process of dispossession to be one of the sins of Britain and the Australian colonies which had one aim - to feed the mills and factories of the British Empire, with large populations of Aboriginals driven from their lands to establish leaseholds and then incorporated into what could only be called wage slavery, but paid in kind not in cash.

So, you might see history one way but as you can see I choose to look at things from a different perspective. All depends where you are looking from.

The Indigenous need to reconcile with themselves before there is any hope of harmony among all !