Topic > Essay on the Printing Revolution - 706

Since the introduction of the Printing Revolution, Indigenous Australians were aware of the changes, however they still choose to gather amongst their own groups/tribes and not be part of the new era (Grafton 2002 ). However, the Australian Law Reform Commission (2015) stated that early European settlers killed many indigenous Australians because they were threatened by their way of communicating and oral traditions. This was the case of ignorance as Europeans were already exposed to the era of the printing revolution and indigenous Australians were unsure. At least 750,000 Aboriginal people were believed to be living in Australia at the time of Captain Cook's arrival and around 265,000 are in Australia today, with numbers growing (Skwirk