Life for Australia's first people changed forever more
The day Cook and his sailors arrived on the southern shore
Their ancestors had lived in Australia for thousands of years
And little realized that the arrival of strangers would bring them suffering death and tears
Cook's arrival in Australia many may celebrate
But the dispossession and deaths of many of Australia's first people his arrival did instigate
Australia's white history has a tainted pride
So many of it's first people in massacres have died
Their children taken from them they were treated bad
And even today that they are not treated by some as equal does seem rather sad
Even some of them are dying in police custody today
And this seems a sad thing for to have to say
Thousands of years living in Australia their history does trace
And they will always remain as Australia's first race.
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