The "V"oice fading quickly, page-202

whites brought: -

• grog
• diseases
• firearms
• steel weapons
• war
• dislocation
• slavery
• proselytisation
• missions
• prostitution
• poor diet - malnutrition, tooth decay, sickness.
• more grog
• tobacco
• loss of rights

oh and whites also brought "civilisation" which enabled : -

• imprisonment
• laws that none could understand
• deprivation of the right to speak ones own language
• money
• private ownership
• greed/selfishness
• pollution
• wild fires
• western religion

I could go on for a while.... total disruption to the lives of first Aussies and while there were some positives, they were seriously outweighed by the negatives.