T'would appear that a couple of historians have attempted to correct me on a previous statement of mine, to wit:
" ... I'm still hopeful that one of these days there'll be evidence found of a prior occupation of this continent that pre-dates the Aboriginal. ... "
I have been reminded that there have been successive waves of Aboriginal settlement and resulting conquest.
Are we really to believe that the British claim of
Terra Nullius is original?
While we may deem the Aboriginal as this continent's indigenous, is there anything to establish their claim as the land's first people?
What I am wishing for, gentlemen, is definitive proof that Aboriginal settlement has displaced/replaced an earlier people on this ancient continent - i.e.
pre-dates. Then we may have an opportunity to paint their history as black as they paint ours.
As regards our debt to the 'Muselmen', perhaps I was wrong when I made mention of all those whose efforts led us to name a railway system after them. Perhaps they were not Muslim at all.
Perhaps I could be forgiven for assuming that those early Afghans were not predominantly Christian? Either way, back in those times, they certainly 'fitted in' to the local society.