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Australia’s Indigenous population estimated at 2.2m before ‘demographic catastrophe’ of colonisation
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PUBLISHEDSep 15, 2026, 9:00 AM
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Study finds earlier numbers were underestimated, suggesting impact of diseases and massacres were much greater than previously thought Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia before colonisation was dramatically underestimated, according to new research that suggests many more of them were killed.
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