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From a current perspective, two negative impacts would be:
Incidence of alcohol abuse amongst aboriginals due to the introduction of a substance (alcohol) to which they have no biological defence!. By extension, this results in far higher rates of violence and sexual offences than in the general community!.
Destruction of extensive habitat regions to be cleared for the raising of domestic animals and crops resulting in widespread deforestation, deserticfication, rising salt tables, erosion and loss of inumerable native species!.

That's only two, it's a little late and I can't put into proper sentences others but hopefully it's start for you!

Edit!.!.!. I've just noticed you've asked this in another section as well!. It seems you need info on the negative effects of colonisation on aborigine's, would I be right!? In which case!.!.!.
Genocide of Tasmanian aborigines
Destruction of the hunter-gatherer life and imposition of a notion of "ownership" that was foreign to aborigines
Stripping of all rights to land
Desecration of sacred sites
Refusal to protect aborigines under law - they were hunted for sport until into the 20th century!.
Refusal to recognise aborigines as original inhabitants (which continues in some respects to this day)
Introduction of a wide variety of European diseases which killed any number of aborigines
Entrenchment in Australia of discrimmination against aborigines as being inferior (again, sadly, something which continues to this day)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Aborigines !.!.!. Indigenous Australians !.!.!. the first known human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands!. The term includes both the Torres Strait Islanders and the Aboriginal People, who together make up about 2!.5% of Australia's population

THE IMPACT OF BRITISH COLONISATION

The mode of life and material cultures varied greatly from region to region before British colonisation of Australia began in Sydney in 1788!.

The most immediate consequence of British settlement - within weeks of the first colonists' arrival - was a wave of Old World epidemic diseases!. Smallpox alone had killed more than 50% of the Aboriginal population!.The second consequence of British settlement was appropriation of land and water resources!.

1788-1900
The combination of disease, loss of land and direct violence reduced the Aboriginal population by an estimated 90% between 1788 and 1900!.

A wave of massacres and resistance followed the frontier of British settlement!. By the 1870s all the fertile areas of Australia had been appropriated, and indigenous communities reduced to impoverished remnants living either on the fringes of Australian communities or on lands considered unsuitable for settlement!. Many indigenous people adapted to European culture, working as stock hands or labourers!. With the exception of a few in the remote interior, all surviving indigenous communities gradually became dependent on the settler population for their livelihood!.

1962
By the early 20th century the indigenous population had declined to between 50,000 and 90,000!. Commonwealth legislation in 1962 specifically gave Aborigines the right to vote in Commonwealth elections!.

1967
The 1967 referendum allowed the Commonwealth to make laws with respect to Aboriginal people, and for Aboriginal people to be included when the country does a count to determine electoral representation!.

1971
In the 1971 controversial Gove land rights case, Justice Blackburn ruled that Australia had been terra nullius before British settlement, and that no concept of native title existed in Australian law!.

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