
Recorded Aboriginal history is a history of contact, with Macassan or Indonesian traders or fishermen, with European, especially British, navigators and with British colonists and settlers.

However, very little is known about the history of human occupation during this enormous length of time, even in outline, and practically nothing of the social, political and cultural changes that must have occurred. Aboriginal people have occupied’ Australia for at least 40 000 years.

Changing Policies Towards Aboriginal PeopleĢ2.
