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"MUMMY, what happened to all the Aborigines?" I asked, long, long ago. "They got sick and died," she replied. And, allowing for a seven-year-old's need for simplicity, she was right. There is not a lot of disagreement about this. An Aboriginal population that may have numbered nearly a million in 1780 declined to barely a tenth of that number a century later and kept on declining until it reached a low of about 74,000 around 1930, and then gradually recovered to the present figure, as officially counted, of around 400,000.
The frontier conflict historians reviewed in the July-August Quadrant do not dispute the big picture--that illness, not settlers' guns and ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Disease--the real invader.(Invisible Invaders by Judy Campbell)(Book...