Australia’s Indigenous population estimated at 2.2m before ‘demographic catastrophe’ of colonisation

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  Australia’s Indigenous population estimated at 2.2m before ‘demographic catastrophe’ of colonisation

  Study finds earlier numbers were underestimated, suggesting impact of diseases and massacres were much greater than previously thought Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia before colonisation was dramatically underestimated, according to new research that suggests many more of them were killed. Modelling by a national research group puts the population levels before the 1788 first fleet arrived at 2.…

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