Abstract
Archaeologists and demographers conservatively estimate that in the 50 000 years the Europeans began to occupy what we now call 'Australia' in 1788, half a billion people had already lived and died there. There were estimated to be 517000 Indigenous Australians in June 2006-one in forty Australians. The people of the Torres' Strait Islands make up 10 per cent of this Indigenous population.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives |
| Editors | Peter Beilharz, Trevor Hogan |
| Place of Publication | Melbourne, Vic. |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 434-438 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780195575286 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- Aboriginal Australians
- history
- Australia
- indigenous people