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Australia Colonisation, Nationhood and the Aborigines Paradise? The Outback Nature Lack of animals plants suitable for farming (Jared Diamond – ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’*) ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’ “History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.” (Jared Diamond 1997: p24) Aborigines – original inhabitants Nomadic hunter-gathering peoples (300,000 pop.) ‘Dreamtime’: nature-worshipping religion Aborigines After Colonisation (1788) Australia declared to be ‘Terra Nullius’ – e