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Life and Death in Pre-Contact Aboriginal Australia

The current Aboriginal narrative from the woke left and the elites is that of a noble savage who lost his land during an “invasion” by the racist whites from Britain. Savage maybe, but far from noble as  revealed in the  following  an essay  in Quadrant magazine by academic William D. Rubenstein When Europeans first settled in Australia in 1788, they encountered an Aboriginal society of almost incredible barbarism and violence. This was the reality of what they found. The reasons for the violence and barbarism of Aboriginal society derive entirely, or almost entirely, from one factor alone. All of the Aborigines of Australia were hunter-gatherers who had not domesticated livestock nor grown crops for food. As a result, the lives of the hundreds of small tribes that constituted Aboriginal society were engaged in a never-ending struggle to find what food they could from what little existed on this continent. Directly…