In successive waves from New Guinea 40 000 BC aboriginals settled in Australia.

They were about one million when the white man came. It was all right at first but it grew worse when the graziers' livestock ate up the grass, thus depriving Aboriginals from the game they hunted. They killed the cattle and the white man retaliated by killing Aboriginals. Disease and alcohol combined, their number dwindled to 15 000 in 1880.

Its was not until 1967 that citizenship was granted to Aboriginals. In 1976 they got back some of their lands and eventually in 1992 their rights to live on the land of their ancestors was fully recognised.

For the white Australians Aboriginals are no longer "no people".