I’m very proud of my heritage as a first-generation Australian. I also celebrate our world record, enduring ancient culture and the particular skills associated with it. Surveyor General Mitchell more than once acknowledged the supremacy of those skills over his own when exploring the country under difficult circumstances.
But the various tribes that inhabited our continent in 1788 were not nations and certainly didn’t speak with one voice.
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