Martin Crotty - Turning Points in Australian History

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Note that we use the term Tasmanians to refer to the people who lived in Tasmania before the arrival of Europeans, and to their descendants, and use the term Aboriginal rather than Indigenous, as per the wishes of the Aboriginal groups we have worked with.

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