Mate to be blunt, one of the most effective genocides and colonisations on Earth. It has been sadly recognised as such. My perspective as a Wodi Wodi descendant living on country may colour things a little bit.

I'll pop up a reading list first of great books which with 'length' of read attached.

Gordon Briscoes Chapter in Australian Welfare History: Historical Sociology is probably one of the most important bits I have ever reading outlining how the state, economic levers, and cultural weapons were used to effect colonisation upon Indigenous societies. - shortest

Survival - A History of Aboriginal Life in New South Wales by Nigel Parbury - short

Aboriginal Australians - Richard Broome, provides pretty good account of the contact and horrors - medium

Racial Folly: A Twentieth Century Aboriginal Family by Gordon Briscoe - medium

Australian Frontier Wars by John Connor, good for learning weapons, tactics, etc. - short

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe, (while derided by some rather fancifully) has some great sources on how many of the first colonisers viewed indigenous nations and people's. Good reading. - medium

(I can send you some of these if you like in PDF).

My quick 2 cents:

Australia's national identity was truly widelt formed at the start of the 20th century with a "White Australia" OBJECTIVE (although originating in the early 1800s), pursued with great vigour by the Labor party and non-labor parties. Over a period of 233 years it involves Extermination/Assimilation/Integration(Quieter Assimilation)/ "Multi-Culturalism"/Mainstreamism. Dispossesions is an extreme theme throughout - especially to corporations like mining oligopolies, but also dispossesion of agricultural, totemic, lore and language knowledge to forcibly institute many indigenous communities into capitalist class societies. These approaches have created incredible disparities and some tiny tiny embers of hope. Source:. Andrew Jakubowicz, Australian Welfare History: Historical Sociology.

The White Australia doctrine also encouraged slavery and indentured servitude of indigenous peoples and immigrants, usually from the Pacific, especially in the states of Queensland. The "Aboriginal Protector" setup an indigenous police corps to aid in the frontier wars, massacres, and keen interest in arresting indigenous peoples.

This is a great illustration of empire in action - they sought to disposses to accumulate. To forcibly institute wage/shareholder capitalism upon the entire continent, by destroying oral libraries of elders, destroying our agriculturalist and 'sedantry' civilisations, using the Crown to "give land" away for free to rum and other pastoralist transnational monopolists, offering the indigenous police corps with its higher wages and benefits as the tiniest of carrots to inspire and coerce some indigenous men into furthering the cause of genocide upon their fellow first nations, and people's.

Keep in mind this too a lot of a time with a smile in one hand asking for help with tracking and land management.

Just 20 years prior to the establishment of the Indigenous Police Corps, the same monopolists took control of the government directly by the way, besting by ousting three of the first four Governors of the Colony. The colonies were rough for the convicts and imperialists too. The third of these, Governor Bligh was actually arrested by the NSW Army Corps acting in lockstep collusion with the rum monopolists, producing Australia's only military coup. The monopolists stacked the courts, the land 'giving: processes, wrote the laws, edicts, and consolidated their position in preparation for the arrival of the next governor. There was no much money as of yet 1808-1810. The autocratic Governor imperialists were strikingly less dispossesive than the capitalist monopolists. That is until Lachlan Macquarie, new Governor rocks up in 1811, at which point he ratchets up his collusion with the monopolists, calls for more rights for convicts and sets the frontier wars off and the policy of extermination towards indigenous peoples off in earnest. "The Father of Australia" as Macquaries memorial reads in our capital Canberra, birthed the aggressive White Australia doctrine. What a loving founding father!

We should remember that English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh convicts were used as slave labour too to build the colonies a lot of the time.

Source: HV Evatt, The Rum Rebellion

There's also this:

"The term genocide has been previously controversial when being applied to Australian History so why use the term genocide? We need to use the term genocide so we do not minimise the legacy of the colonisation and how the effects contemporarily manifest themselves. We need to use the term genocide to better understand our history so we can work to change the present and stop future genocide. We need to use the term genocide because it is the truth, it is what happened/is happening in Australia" from Sentance 2020:
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/genocide-in-australia/

He puts the case forth with evidence that the genocide is ongoing. I non surprisingly tend to agree.

I'm currently writing a book on society and governance on the continent of Australia. If you want I can send you some material I have put together already - just let me know! Some is written, visual, audio and video.