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'Since the arrival of the first fleet many Australians today have grown up into adults as sixth or eighth generation Australians with the notion that there was no Aboriginal resistance to white colonisation in 1788. J.W. Hancock, an eminent historian of the 1930's wrote, "Aboriginal reaction to Europeans was pathetically helpless...they reacted differently from other indigenous peoples they mutely died" (Reynolds 1989: 03:85-03:90).' (Abstract)
