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 @b354784a Even if that were true for all Indigenous Australians in the present day, the First Peoples had running water and readily available food before Europeans arrived.

One of the first things colonists did was cut off access to natural food and water sources by fencing off grazing land and watering their stock at traditional water sources, where the animals fouled the water.

As well, colonists literally poisoned food and water as a way of "clearing out" (eradicating) indigenous peoples.

If their descendants have access to food and water today, they've paid a terrible price of deprivation and murder for it.

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