DATE: October 15, 2026 at 11:35AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORG
TITLE: 93% of Australia's Indigenous People Lost Within 73 Years of Colonization
Source: Science Daily - Top Society
New research suggests that Australia's Indigenous population before European colonization was far larger than historical estimates have indicated. Scientists now estimate that approximately 2.2 million Indigenous people lived across the continent before the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788—up to seven times the number suggested by some earlier calculations—and a staggering 93% of the Indigenous population was lost within 73 years of...
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