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FairCheek6825 t1_j0oji02 wrote

Yeah Cook also stated that there was no inhabitants living in Australia!

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Aethelredditor t1_j0p3o4l wrote

Even after shooting at them?

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-Sir_Bearington- t1_j0pf7uo wrote

Indigenous Australians were considered 'fauna' up until about the 70's or so, not people.

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_Meece_ t1_j0rr4ml wrote

This is a myth, they weren't considered anything. They were treated as if they didn't exist.

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Fartmatic t1_j0szli3 wrote

Both of these posts are untrue, the fauna thing is a myth but they wen't simply treated as if they didn't exist either. Of course in many parts of Australia they didn't have equal voting rights until more modern times (in half the states they've had a constitutional right to vote for over 170 years) but there was certainly always government policy at federal and state levels recognising them with ministers responsible for their welfare interests and Aboriginal issues.

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