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inpc | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Got to admit this bit made me do a double take… “providing the greatest change to Australian ethnicity and total population in our history yet the ABS decided to cease tracking that data specifically in the census.”

You left out the bit when all those honkeys from Britain turned up…
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stacksatsio | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You’ve got to understand that when the Brits showed up, the aborigines were still in the stoneage. The Maoris even thought they were weak people. 

If anyone else had colonised this country there would be no aborigines today. They wiped out the Tasmanian mob and could easily have done the rest but that wasn’t their way.

And colonisation was inevitable - such a huge landmass was never going to just be left alone in that era.
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inpc | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 And what if the next wave of colonists are smarter than you?
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stacksatsio | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The next wave of colonists is already here and they’re sharing about 14 brain cells between them.
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inpc | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Is that’s the case why are you scared?