Questions in response to "THE SECRET COUNTRY"
1. Australia was regarded as empty land by the British because when the Europeans came to Australia they believed that because Aborigines didn't cultivate the land and were not seen to use the land in a normal, proprietarial sense and also because the Aborigines believed that they didn't own the land and they belonged to the land, the land therefore regarded as void. The law also states that Aboriginals didn't exist in 1788 and therefore no treaties could exist because the Aboriginals didn't exist.
2. Before 1788, there were between 500-700,000 people living throughout the country with a history going back some 60,000 years. The Aborigines lived primarily off the land. They fished in the waters, hunted on the land and harvested food from surrounding areas. Self-sufficient and harmonious, the Aboriginals sometimes felt the need for travel because the land was not abundant enough. The trade between tribes was well established.......

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Title: The Secret Country
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