[1] The settlement of Western Australia by Europeans, under James Stirling, in the early 1840s, created a new generation of colony born young men who were engaged in hostilities with Aboriginal people and the imprisonment of those who dared question their authority.
The settlement proceeded with the expropriation of land and the exploitation of cheap labour and the extermination of any resistance by Aboriginal people.
There is a large number of absolutely worthless black and half-castes about who grow up to lives of prostitution and idleness; they are a perfect nuisance; if they were taken away from their surroundings of temptation much good might be done with them.
The passing of the Mabo and Wik High Court Decisions, which recognised Aboriginal people as in possession of the land at the date of European settlement, is an appendix to these changes.
This period is still not complete, as the Western Australian Labor and Liberal Coalition governments are still resisting the native title claim of the Noongar people.