I never mentioned Governor Arthur Philip, although IMO he wasn't as good a governor as you seem to be making out.
The following series of posts describe the plight of aboriginals in the north where they continued to succumb to white man’s diseases, but the frontier moved more slowly than in the south due to a difficult climate.
Remote Aboriginal missions
Source: ONE BLOOD Ch 7
200 YEARS OF ABORIGINAL ENCOUNTER WITH CHRISTIANITY: A STORY OF HOPE JOHN HARRIS
Europeansfound the tropical climate of the far North debilitating and the remoteness unbearable and were afflicted by tropical diseases and alcoholism. Asians fared better, but the Aboriginal people were the real survivors.
By the time most white Australians were living comfortably in southern suburbia,there were still Aboriginal people in the north to whom the white world was a distant irrelevance. It is a region where Aboriginal languages are still spoken and where most of the white population is living and working in 'airconditioned splendour.'
When the British first arrived in north Australian waters, Aboriginal people had long been in contact with the outside world. The famed navigator and explorer Matthew Flinders was probably the first British to pass through but he was amazed to find, just off Cape Wilberforce, six of a fleet of sixty South-East Asian prays, each containing a crew of about thirty men.
Aborigines of the Northern Territory coasts widely used the 'Macassar' pidgin as a trade language and its effects on Aboriginal languages of the region were considerable.
The Aboriginal inhabitants of the north had no way of knowing that their status had changed. Confident of the timeless possession of their own lands, they could not have comprehended that they had become British subjects, their countries now the property of a distant monarch whose annexation of their lands was agreed to be just and proper under so-called international law, a law not even of the majority but of the powerful.
They used to give him wrong translations, including obscenities, and then laugh uproariously when he unwittingly used them in his sermons although they had a high regard for this 'very gentlemanly and well-educated man.
But they did not adopt Christianity readily as they had little understanding of the motives of the white missionary, but on 4 September 1882, four Jesuit missionaries arrived in the north and between 1882 and 1899, nineteen Jesuits worked in their Northern Territory missions.
All were from Austria-Hungary and like the Cistercians who came to Western Australia, the Jesuits had recently suffered religious persecution. During one of their periodic expulsions from their homeland, some Austrian Jesuits had come to South Australia.
