Citation

Brown SJ. Lancet Child Adolesc. Health 2020; 4(1): 5-6.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30324-4

PMID

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Abstract

First Nations people have thrived and survived on the continent now called Australia
for more than 60 000 years. Before colonisation, First Nations people had diverse
language and cultural groups; complex kinship systems; sophisticated ways of managing
land, sea, and waterways and matching ways of living and connecting to country that
were designed to protect the spiritual, social, and emotional wellbeing of future
generations.1,2 The disruption of these systems was swift, brutal, and devastating
for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

Language: en