It is fascinating in the context of publicity and propaganda here by the GreenLeft/Albo/Govt around The Voice that nobody mentions(not that I have seen) that the arrival of the British First Fleet here in Jan 1788 tolled the bell for the end of The Stone Age lingering on across the wide brown great southern land and named New South Wales by the new settlers, now known as Australia.
The Stone Age and associated violence, horrors and hardships across the wide brown great southern land ended the day the British First Fleet landed here and started establishing a new society. Indigenous people could look forward to an improving standard of living and increased life expectancy as they participated in the development of the NSW Colony. The huge and globally historic improvements in living standards and life expectancy that emerged from the industrial revolution in Britain inevitably flowed through to the Colony of NSW.