Friday, October 18, 2013

Fact of the Day

The Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal ) population dropped from about 1 million to 0.1 million in the first century after invasion in 1788 from disease, deprivation and violence [1, 6] (TCHO fails to detail the ongoing ethnocide in which 500 tribes and 250 languages reduced to several dozen. The “full-blood” Tasmania Indigenous population dropped from possibly 10,000 to zero.

In terms of difference in life expectancies between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians of 11.5 years lower for Aboriginal for men and 9.5 years lower for Aboriginal women.

http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/32441-cambridge-history-of-australia.html

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