... children of the country. During the 18th and 19th centuries there was a huge decline in the Aboriginal population due to disease, social and cultural disruptions, and brutal mistreatment. Out of all of these factors, disease took the most lives. Aborigine people did not have the antibodies to protect them against the "European" diseases. Disease control is still an immense problem today, particularly among children and childhood diseases which should be preventable. Since healthcare is still not equal, the Aborigine and rural populations die much more often from disease. Approximately 94 percent of Australians originally came from Europe. Although the majority of the immigrants were either English or Irish, over 18 percent of the population is comprised of Europeans from other backgrounds. There were large waves of immigration from the Middle East and Asia after WWII Most Aboriginal families face health problems due to a lack of health care. They ...

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