Editing First Fleet (section)

=== First contact ===
The First Fleet encountered [[Indigenous Australians]] when they landed at [[Botany Bay]]. The [[Cadigal]] people of the [[Botany Bay]] area witnessed the Fleet arrive and six days later the two ships of French explorer [[Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse|La Pérouse]], the [[French ship Astrolabe (1781)|''Astrolabe'']] and the [[French ship Boussole (1782)|''Boussole'']], sailed into the bay.<ref>{{cite web
  | last       = Kensy
  | first      = Julia
  | title      = La Perouse
  | url        = http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/la_perouse
  | work       = Dictionary of Sydney
  | access-date = 24 November 2013
  }}</ref> When the Fleet moved to Sydney Cove seeking better conditions for establishing the colony, they encountered the Eora people, including the [[Bidjigal]] clan. A number of the First Fleet journals record encounters with Aboriginal people.<ref>{{cite web
  | last       = Derrincourt
  | first      = Robin
  | title      = Camp Cove
  | url        = http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/camp_cove?zoom_highlight=first+fleet
  | work       = Dictionary of Sydney
  | access-date = 24 November 2013
  }}</ref>

Although the official policy of the British Government was to establish friendly relations with Aboriginal people,<ref name="Museum of Australian Democracy" /> and [[Arthur Phillip]] ordered that the Aboriginal people should be well treated, it was not long before [[Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars|conflict began]]. The colonists did not sign treaties with the original inhabitants of the land.<ref>{{cite journal
  | last       = Banner
  | first      = Stuart
  | title      = Why Terra Nullius? Anthropology and Property Law in Early Australia
  | journal    = Law and History Review
  | date       = Spring 2005
  | volume     = 23
  | issue      = 1
  | pages      = 95–131
  | jstor        = 30042845
  | doi        = 10.1017/s0738248000000067
  | s2cid = 145484253
 }}</ref> Between 1790 and 1810, [[Pemulwuy]] of the [[Bidjigal]] clan led the local people in a series of attacks against the colonists.<ref>{{cite book
  | last      = Kohen
  | first     = J. L.
  | title     = 'Pemulwuy (1750–1802)', Australian Dictionary of Biography
  | chapter = Pemulwuy (1750–1802)
 | publisher = National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
  | url       = http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pemulwuy-13147
  }}</ref>