By Connor Hansford-Smith Traditional aboriginal society (The Dreaming) White settlement starting from1788 destroyed the aborigine’s main livelihood of Australia. The aboriginal community, settlers in the continent for at least 30,000 years, found their land being wrenched away from them. The procedure was from time to time aggressive, and white settlers made tiny efforts to give good reason for what they were doing, when they bothered to give reasons, they talked concerning Australia being an bare continent, about aboriginals in fact not owning land, and about whites having a greater society which ought to be extend among uncivilised peoples. But whites made little attempts to find out what aboriginal life was actually like. Instead, aboriginal life was rapidly recognized as primitive: features of it were soon described as old-fashioned or intimidating, and aborigines were often simply destined as a people of boomerangs, corroborees and spears. Hasty and inaccurate. Aborigines had developed a society that was well organised and on a much senior level than most white people Such judgments were hasty and wrong. Aborigines had developed a civilization that was well organised and on a much higher level than the majority of white people realised, it also suffered much less from disease. Nor had traditional Aboriginal society been unchanging since earliest times, as whites often thought. The force of white invasion, however, brought adjustments on a scale not known before. Traditional Aboriginal society was burnt down rapidly as white settlement occurred, particularly in coastal districts; inland, chiefly in drier and remote districts, it survived much longer in its original form. Indeed, traditional aboriginal society did not vanish out totally – today Aboriginals in rural and urban Australia follow many elements of the traditional way of life and often try to bring back lost features of it. But a clearer accepting of traditional society comes from looking not at...