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Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University

More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research

A gathering on the Murray River depicted in 1858. Gerard Krefft, Corroboree on the Murray River, 1858. Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales

Content warning: This article discusses mass death, epidemics, frontier violence, and the structural violence experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.


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