If Australia had not be colonised, where would the Indigenous Australians be now?

Question

Just suppose no nation had touched it, what would Australia have developed into? Would it be a rich nation, would it be a struggling nation, or would it be dirt poor, with a hunter-gatherer economy?

Answer 1

If England had not colonised it some other country soon would have.

And if no one had colonised it, the place would be the same as it has been for the last forty thousand years. Inhabited by nomadic hunter gatherers with stone age technology.

Answer 2

living longer, for a start! no alcohol or whitemans imposed diet.  

after contact with macassan fisherman for a few hundred years prior to british colonialism, there's a fair chance that Islam could've taken a foothold in the North.

But europeans such as the french, dutch and english were in the thick of colonising as much land as they could so it was inevitable.

Answer 3

We'll never know if the British didn't colonise then it would have been the French or the Dutch, European powers at the time just would not have left a land that could not resist them as free and independent.

As a guess once exposed to modern technology they would have taken those bits that suited them and built a wealthy nation just different to the one we have now

Mickey D you seem to have changed your tune since the attached post,

http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

Answer 4

Do you mean if it had never had contact with outside societies? Australia used to have such contact for centuries before the British came, with the Macassans. But if Australia had not been colonised, and had been allowed to develop as it wished, probably it would still have the same resource riches it has now, but perhaps with the spititual riches that exist within traditional societies.  In monetary terms maybe they would have been 'poor' but since the use of water and the environment might have been better, perhaps they might be in a better state than  now after 200 years of mis-management of the water and land.

Answer 5

Does it really matter?

Do you think the indigenous Australians give a hoot as to what the British would do?

They certainly wouldn't have touched alcohol and suffer the problem of today. They certanily will not have the diseases the white men bring along with them

I am NOT criticising the European. What happened , happened. We are here now. Australia is my home and I love it dearly. I am merely answering your question as to what might happen.

Cheers

Answer 6

Sitting around banging rocks together.