Trial and Jury: Should the white settlers be punished for what they did to the Australian Aborigines?

• Fellow Councillors .This slide show will go over some of the background evidence for the trial.

• Each slide has information and questions for you to answer

• Create a fact file that shows all your answers.

The Claimants (the victims) The Claimants in this case are the Aborigines. The following slides will you give you some information

on these characters

Who are the Aborigines?

• Australian Aborigines were the first people to live on the continent of Australia

• It is believed that they originally travelled from Australia to Asia

• They soon adapted to live in the wide range of environments that Australia has, from deserts to tropical rainforest.

• They learnt to live off the land, using what they could to survive.

Questions

• Where did the Aborigines come from?

• Write down five characteristics of the Aborigines ( for example, what to they look like? What do they wear?)

The defendant ( the person being charged for a crime).

The next couple of slides will go over the characters who are said to have committed a crime

The Aborigines lived peacefully for many years… until…

• Australia was invaded by wealthy and powerful Europeans.

• These people travelled by boat to Australia in the 1700’s.

• Captain James Cook was one of the first British people to settle in Australia.

- As the white settlers landed in Australia, they started fighting with the Aborigines.

- The white settlers had bought rifles and horses to fight with the Aborigines.

- All that the Aborigines had were spears

Why did Captain James Cook and his men want to settle in

Australia?• They Europeans wanted

to use the land to make money.

• The Europeans believed that they should try and ‘educate’ the Aborigines.

• The aim was to make them more like us.

• They decided that they could use the aborigines to help them on the farms.

Questions

• Who was one of the first people to settle in Australia?

• What happened when the White Settlers first arrived in Australia?

• Why did they settle in Australia? How did they want to use the Aborigines?

Super Star challenge slidesThe information on this slide is tricky to understand… however, I think you are all smart enough to use it in

the trial.

• To be very snazzy, you could say that the white settlers wanted to colonise Australia

• Colonisation means = A group of people who want to control a piece of land and the people that live on that land.

• So the White Settlers wanted to colonise Australia. They wanted to take over the land and make the Aborigines more like us.

Questions

• In your own words, write a definition for colonise ( can also be searched for as colonialism).

• Using the internet, find out how you say the word colonize.

Use the speaker button to find out how to say the word

Councilors of 8B2

• Bring in your evidence notes for the trial

• Trial Date• 18th December• 11.20am.• Court will end

at 12.20pm