It's a vast oversimplification to say that Australian aborigines "nurtured and developed the environment". As has been the case on every continent humans have migrated to, they attempted to shape the environment to their preferences. In Australia, as in most of the world, the arrival of Homo sapiens led quickly to the extinction of megafauna and widespread environmental disturbance. Compared with Europeans at the time of first contact, the environmental damage was constrained by technological limits, not by a superior relationship with the natural world.

Sad but true....our glorious past was far from glorious. The Australian government should be ensuring that the Aboriginal people are looked after properly, it is now their responsibility. The Aborigines are the true guardians of the land and knew how manage the forces of nature long before we arrived. The British are long gone now, it was shameful how they treated the native people everywhere they colonised, but history cannot be changed and we can only try and make sure that we don’t repeat mistakes of the past.

Yeah so sad forrthe native

Sounds familiar. But here in the US, the French are responsible for wiping out more than 70% o the native population in the early 1600s before the Pilgrims arrived. When they got here, they found literally dozens of empty villages with intact houses, farms, storage packed with grain, corn, firewood. The French and Spanish wiped out literally millions of natives over the next century until the English had established a foothold, and then they picked up the charge. It's truly horrific what people do to each other.

Yaeh so sad for the bnatives \

Someone else read Dark Emu Agriculture or accident by Bruce Pascoe?

Isn't it ironic how the unsustainable civilizations try like hell to the destroy the sustainable ones?

Yes, been going on for centuries.