Genocide of Indigenous Australians

Genocide of Indigenous Australians
1888 illustration of a massacre by Australian native police in Queensland, Australia
Location	Australia
Date	1788 - 1970
Target	Aboriginal Australians Torres Strait Islanders
Attack type	Genocide, massacre, forced displacement, ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, starvation, cultural genocide
Perpetrators	British colonisers Australian Government
Motive	Settler colonialism White supremacy

The genocide of Indigenous Australians is the systematic and deliberate actions taken primarily by British colonisers and their descendants, particularly during the 18th to the 20th centuries, aimed at eradicating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, languages, and people.^[1] Motivations for the genocide varied, and included motivations aimed at preserving a "white Australia",^[2] or assimilating Indigenous populations "for their own good".^[3]

The genocide of Indigenous Australians includes mass killings during the frontier wars, forced removals of children (now known as the Stolen Generations), and policies of forced assimilation by the Australian Government that sought to extinguish Indigenous Australian identity and cultural practices.^{[4][page needed][5]}