This view has resonated with some Aboriginal authorities, including professors Maynard and Langton, and the medical officer Dr Mark Wenitong. However, the historians Henry Reynolds, Peter Dowling, and Cassandra Pybus still regard this theory as unproven.

Outbreaks

Outbreak of 1789

This disease swiftly inflicted a huge toll on the local Eora population of Aboriginals, causing most of those not infected to flee the region. The epidemic probably

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