For close to 38,000 years before European settlement, Australian Indigenous and Torres Strait people had no leisure and no rest time (Lynch R & Veal A 2006). This is not to say that they worked all the time. In fact, many anthropologists suggest that an Indigenous person could collect the day's food in between 3 and 5 hours (Lynch R & Veal A 2006). The difference is that, suggested by (Lynch R & Veal A 2006), traditional Indigenous society didn't separate ‘work' and ‘other things' like the post-Christian Europeans did. Activities like food gathering and hunting were fun, social and educational activities, not something to be ‘escaped' from at the end of each day (Lynch R & Veal A 2006). It has been observed that Indigenous people could have increased the amount of food collected each day, but chose to ‘work' everyday rather than stockpile resources. When the Europeans colonised Australia, the local population had to change in many ways, including how leisure was carried out.......

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Title: Access To Recreation Within Australian Aboriginal Communities
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