Prior to the threatened rewriting of the Australian constitution can we stop re-writing the English dictionary and the meanings of our words to suit the re-write of what being an Australian is? Perhaps it is all part of the demise of our education system but no human is indigenous to Australia as Australia didn’t even come with a backstory of mammals let alone primates from which came the many iterations of the upright, bi-pedal, Homo species (Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Homo Heidelberg, etc) and, ultimately, us Homo sapiens.
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