Social media reacts sharply to the findings online
3 Sep 15 5:13 AM · 9d ago · 3 posts · 2 sources · development 3 of 3
The study's findings circulate on Reddit and Mastodon within hours of publication, with at least one Mastodon user framing the colonisation death toll in pointedly hostile terms toward white settlers.
“White people = most dangerous invasive alien species in Australia.”
wood5y@mastodonapp.ukCorey Bradshaw Study co-author, Flinders University professorLarissa Behrendt CIEHF advisory committee chair, UTS professorAustralian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) Research body behind the study
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 3 claims were published in its stretch
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first by Mastodon, 7d ago · also Anadolu Agency, The Independent
1 more headline
- Australia's pre-colonial Indigenous population may have been far larger than estimated: Study Anadolu Agency · 7d ago
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first by Mastodon, 5d ago · also Hindustan Times, The Conversation
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first by Mastodon, 4d ago
What people said 19 voices · verbatim
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More than 2 million Indigenous people likely lived in Australia in 1788, over seven times the figure used for a century, and numbers fell by over 90 percent by 1861. # Archaeology # IndigenousAustralia # PopulationGenetics https://www. anthropology.net/p/australia-w as-home-to-22-million
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There are more people alive today with aboriginal heritage than ever before. No accurate census was ever taken by them originally, believe it or not. There is no consensus or hard figure on the amount of Aboriginals in Australia, nor how long they have been in the country, or when they diverted from their Dravidian Indian and Papa New Guinean…
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A new study by # FlindersUniversity estimates a # population of ~2.2 million # IndigenousAustralians prior to 1788. Some 93% of the pre- # colonial population was wiped out by 1861—around two million people—and at current growth rates, won’t return to pre-settlement levels until 2047. https:// phys.org/news/2026-09-indigeno…
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Indigenous oral histories, in my experience, tend to be context-dependent, where the story, and the reason for telling the story, change depending on the situation. The same should go for listening. Every single person has wisdom, but it is up to the listener to discern what is important and the take-away from that conversation. The information…
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Study suggests a very much larger pre-invasion Australian population than previously believed. Catastrophic population decline with colonisation. # Australia # firstnations # demography https://www. independent.co.uk/news/science /australia-indigenous-population-colonisation-b3051036.html
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you seem to be describing characters who came over as a desperate means of survival, and then who tried to stay out of the aboriginals way, unknowingly transmitting diseases as an unfortunate byproduct of their otherwise peaceful existence. While I'm sure there were some that fit that category, prisoners etc, those are clearly not the only types…
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Australia may have had a much larger Indigenous population before the arrival of Europeans than previously thought, a new study has found. The research, based on computer modelling, suggests that about ⭐️93 per cent of the pre-European population was removed in under 80 years following the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. And this population…
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It could happen. I assume white Australians would accept losing their rights to their land, having their kids taken away and being forced to speak Chinese. They’d get over it in a timely manner. I mean, China’s the superior culture. They invented writing first.
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"Australia was colonised on the basis of terra nullius, that it belonged to no one. That concept was overthrown with the high court’s Mabo decision, when it was recognised that First Nations people had been here for tens of thousands of years. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were not properly counted in the census until 1971, after…
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This is the basis of the History Wars which are ongoing arguments among serious Australian historians. The answer is genuinely not clear. I would avoid using the word genocide as it is the strongest possible description of violence in this case.
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New research suggests that the Indigenous population in Australia was >2 million before the invasion, and that 90% of the population died in the following 70 years. Sobering stuff. https:// theconversation.com/more-than- 2-million-indigenous-people-lived-in-australia-in-1788-new-research-291278
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There's an enormous amount of research on why Indigenous Australians – and all indigenous populations on colonised land – are doing poorly. Very easy to google. Singapore is not one of those places. That's what I was saying.
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https://www. europesays.com/us/1064668/ Impact of colonisation on First Nations people far greater than previous estimates, research finds # AboriginalHistory # Australia # colonisation # FirstNations # history # Indigenous # News
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So your argument is that indigenous Australians are doing poorly because we still have Charlie as our head of state? If we switched from a constitutional monarchy to a republic, this problem will be solved?
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It been 100s of years, and they are still suffering is the problem. Billions spent annual to mitigate the issues. Billions. The only colonist in history that actively try and help those they took over
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You really think people up to about 1860 had the means to actually do that? They didn’t have the weaponry, the spread or even the impetus to do that.
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It really did hit rock bottom. But since then they have changed the chair and MD and I hope it means improving back to the old standards at least
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Looks like they silently removed this from the article. ABC really needs to make sure they put a correction note when they make corrections.
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Identification for procreation or avoidance? We don’t seem to get any less of them.
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