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What the indigenous population identify as is irrelevant; in the present day we call that continent Australia.
by markdown 4y ago
What the indigenous population identify as is irrelevant; in the present day we call that continent Australia.
- denkmoon 4y agoA state cannot exist without citizens that identify as belonging to said state...
- dorkwood 4y agoCan't the term "Australia" just refer to the place on the globe? Like if someone was telling me what Antarctica looked like 50,000 years ago, I wouldn't tell them that Antarctica didn't exist back then. I'd know what they meant.
- wizofaus 4y ago"Australia's history" was a poor choice of phrase exactly because of that ambiguity. In fact it was explicitly referring to the period since 1901, which very few people would consider to be the start of "Australia's history".