• Aboriginal people in Tasmania are forcibly removed and settled onĀ Flinders Island. The living conditions lead to many deaths. Later the community is moved to Cape Barren Island.
  • Port Phillip District Wars rage in Victoria (then administered by New South Wales and known as Port Phillip district) from 1830 to 1850. The Indigenous Koorie population resists the large influx of immigrants and settlers who bring large herds of sheep and cattle into the state.