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Indigenous Australians: Information from Answers.com (8535 words) |
 | Australian Aborigines are believed to have numbered 300,000–1,000,000 when European colonization began in the late 18th century, but they were devastated by introduced diseases and by the bloody 19th-century policy of “pacification by force.” In the early 21st century they were estimated to number more than 400,000. |
| Fire-stick farming, identified by Australian archeologist Rhys Jones in 1969, is the practice of using fire to regularly burn vegetation to facilitate hunting and to change the composition of plant and animal species in an area. |
| As at June 2001, the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated the total resident indigenous population to be 458,520 (2.4% of Australia's total), 90% of whom identified as Aboriginal, 6% Torres Strait Islander and the remaining 4% being of dual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parentage. |
| Australian literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1131 words) |
| Australian literature in English began soon after the establishment of the country by Europeans. |
| Australian literature can be thought of as coming of age in 1973 when Patrick White became the first and so far only Australian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature although he was born and spent a large part of his life overseas. |
| Australian literature has had several scandals surrounding the identity of writers notably the 1944 Ern Malley affair led to an obscenity trial and is often blammed for the lack of modernist poetry in Australia. |
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