7 Interesting and Fun Facts about Australia - Page 6 of 9

The World’s Oldest Natives

Australian aborigines are indigenous people who still maintain the world’s oldest culture. Looking at their origin, it is estimated that aborigines left Africa 75 thousand years ago and have been in Australia for more than 40 thousand years. However, aboriginals, whose total population is only 1.5% today, celebrated their struggle for survival as the “Year of Mourning” by taking a 5-kilometer walk in Sydney in 1988, the genocides they have lived through for centuries.