The First Australians

Their ancestors lived in Australia sixty thousand years ago

And maybe even longer as some would argue so

Not given the respect that they are worthy of which seems hard to undestand

But they will always be the first people of this great Southern Land 

To be born a First Australian is not to be one of the best

As many of them live in poverty the lot of the dispossessed

Of all indigenous races Worldwide and it seems sad to say

That most of them are among the poorest of the Australia of today

But despite dispossession and massacres some of them did survive

And descendants of the First Auistralians in the flesh today alive

The honour of the first Australians with them does remain

For as long as there are people in Australia this title they will retain

Many of them among Australia's poorest only true to say

And with all indigenous people Worldwide sadly it too is this way.