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Violet_Crumble

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2. It sounds like very similar things happened to the Aboriginal population...

Reply to Squinch (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 5, 2014, 07:31 AM

Jul 2014

I read somewhere that their population around the time of the First Fleet arriving was over 250,000 and by the early 20th century had dropped to around 60,000. Considering European settlement of America happened about 200 years before Australia, there's a lot of similarities. Not taking into account that settlers killed a lot of them, the main introduced disease I've always heard of was Smallpox.

I found a thesis on introduced diseases written by someone at the uni I went to before my work/study balance went out of whack and I had to drop out.

https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/bitstream/.../02Whole_Dowling.pdf

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This Is How "Unsettled" Australia Was Before The British Arrived In 1788 [View all] Violet_Crumble Jul 2014 OP

I happen to be reading a lot about the US before and just as the Europeans came Squinch Jul 2014 #1

It sounds like very similar things happened to the Aboriginal population... Violet_Crumble Jul 2014 #2

Shoot. It's telling me the link is an "invalid identifier." That sounds pretty fascinating, though. Squinch Jul 2014 #3

Try this url. It's a pdf, so hopefully this will lead you to it... Violet_Crumble Jul 2014 #4

It works! Thank you! Squinch Jul 2014 #5

"The gap between the health status of each has widened rather than narrowed over the last one Squinch Jul 2014 #6

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Putting both on the library hold list. Thank you! Squinch Jul 2014 #10

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