I don't know a ton about Australian history, so take the following with a grain of salt. But at the time the book is set Australia had only been colonized by the British for about 20 years, and that on the coast, so I think perhaps the indigenous population had not yet been impacted much?
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Date: 2010-07-26 03:47 pm (UTC)