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First let me say that I know very little of Australian history. Second, I saw a documentary today. It said that early on, the Aboriginal population got along relatively well (compared to say, America, or South Africa). That the Aboriginal tribes respected the guy (forget his name) that the British put in charge because he was missing the same tooth as was ritually removed when one of them became a shaman, and that for a while, the Aboriginals even lived side by side with the Convicts in Sidney, sometimes even sharing the same houses and eating together. It also said that all this ended when some psychopath decided it would be good sport to go around shooting the natives for no reason.
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