aboriginal land management in 1788?

Question

before what they had and after europeans came

Answer 1

What makes you think that aboriginals had land management? There were so few of them in such a vast country that there was natural regeneration. Like most natives they had no need for fencing and boundaries and had stories which grew up around the land for which most natives had a profound respect. You don't bite the hand that feeds you. They took what they could consume and what they needed, no need for killing for sport. They never could really understand the white people's ways and resisted every effort to modernise them. Even to this day there are many aboriginal, or Mabu, who still resist white peoples ways, they prefer to live in the bush and continue in the lifestyle they have had for thousands of years. Of course they were badly affected by disease which the settlers bought to them and had little or no resistance to these foreign infections. They are a people who have survived in such a harsh environment as outback Australia. They have an amazing knowledge of natural plant and animal life which has sustained them. They had no written language apart from a few paintings which passed down stories of important events. There are many different individual groups of aboriginal people, they are not all one group. Gogadala is one, Pitinjajarra is another, and there are many more. Each have their own language. There were a group of indiginous aboriginal people on the island of Tasmania who were wiped out by white people. The last surviving member was a woman called Truganinni and she died this century I believe. Aboriginals never really planted anything as there was plant life in abundance. They never kept any animals apart from wild dogs, or dingoes which they domesticated. Their diet is very basic, eating many different fruits, nuts, berries, as well as kangaroo, fish, lizards. I am an australian so I understand a little about them, a fascinating and proud people who have survived.

Answer 2

The Aborigines were thought to be nomadic people's, constantly moving from territory to territory. They had a great respect for the land, realising that the land gave them all that they needed. They were true environmentalists, realising that their own fate was bound up with the land.

Unfortunately, it was their nomadic life style that the Europeans would use to justify taking over the land. Because the Aborigines were not 'settled' on the land - ie that they did not display ownership, the English were able to declare the land Terra Nulis - not occupied.