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60,000+ years	Colonisation	Protection	Assimilation	Integration	Reconcilitation

The history of Aboriginal dispossession is central to understanding contemporary Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal relations.
Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

The history of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal relations, while complex, has had the following phases:

• The 60,000+ years before the arrival of Europeans
• Initial invasion and colonisation (1788 to 1890)
• Protection and segregation (1890s to the 1950s)
• Assimilation (1940s to the 1960s)
• Integration, self-determination and self-management (1967 to mid 1990s)
• Reconciliation (1991 to the present)

This section of the site includes:

• an overview of the history of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal relations for each of these phases
• background readings
• key events and dates
• links to further resources