Stolen Generation: The brutal history of Australia's Aborigine People

December 22, 2008

DESPITE the presence of native inhabitants, Australia in 1788 was declared void by the British First Fleet of any pre-existing civilisation under the doctrine of terra nullius - essentially, a land without people. Without recognisable systems of ruler and ruled, of religious ceremony or worship, of permanent settlement, ownership and organised trade, the land was deemed to be empty. www.pilotguides.com/destination_guide/pacific/australia/ history_of_aborigines.php