Australia has been occupied by humans for approximately 65,000 years. Archaeological evidence is constantly being unearthed as fieldwork and research continues. The evidence is incontrovertible, and discussion is vigorous around the nature of First Nations peoples’ relationships with the lands on which they lived, and still live. With some seven hundred languages, many now extinct, it would be an error to assume that there was just one dominant people across the whole land mass. In effect it was not ‘owned’ by any one group organised as a nation, hence the term terra nullius — Empty Land — found on very early maps and charts.
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