1. Captain Arthur Phillip
... the Aborigines When the British first arrived in Australia they were unaware of the Aboriginal people who had lived here for thousands of years. They said that the land was "terra nullius", meaning vacant land. .The British took their land and their rights away from them. The Aborigines constantly fought with the British about their right to the land in which they ... ...
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