Compare and contrast the impact of early colonial settlements on the indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand.

The question requires that candidates give an account of the similarities and differences between the impact of early colonial settlements on the indigenous people in Australia and New Zealand, referring to both throughout. Candidates may refer to how in both countries indigenous people were initially used as guides to help in land selection. Another comparison may be that language and cultural differences often caused misunderstandings, particularly over issues of land. In both countries these tensions led to violence. Contrasts may include the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand; however, the Australian Aboriginals never sanctioned British colonisation. There was also significantly more violence in Australia and there were massacres in Pinjarra and Myall Creek. Both similarities and differences must be clearly indicated but there does not need to be an equal number of each and there may also be a stronger focus on one of the countries.