My mother was born in Australia, near Sidney
That's awesome!  That's the largest island continent - its big!  Its the 6th largest country
However, I grew up in Canada and don't know much about Australia.
Until the British settled it, the indigenous Australians spoke more than 250 languages
Really, that's quite impressive that there is so many languages. What is the precentage of indigenous Australians today?
I don't know but the population shrunk from 1.25 million in 1788 to 50k in 1930 - mainly due to diseases like smallpox
I guess it's pretty similar to what happened to the Natives in North America. Does Australia have programs to support them? Canada does
temperate coastal regions that are currently the most heavily populated. In the early 1900s it was commonly believed that the Aboriginal population of Australia was leading toward extinction. The population shrank from those present when colonisation occurred in 1788 to 50,000 in 1930; this was primarily due to an outbreak of smallpox and to a lesser extent from other diseases.
Post-colonisation, the coastal Indigenous populations were soon absorbed, depleted or forced from their lands; the traditional aspects of Aboriginal life which remained persisted most strongly in areas such as the
asked which film he would want with him on a deserted island, "A movie I really love is "Barton Fink". I don't know if that’s the movie I'd take to a desert island, but I feel like there's so much in there, you could watch it again and again. That's important to me, especially if that was the only movie I'd have with me for the rest of my life."
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