Aborigines

The name "aborigine" derives from the Latin, 

meaning "original inhabitants." There are approx. 

400,000 aborigines living in Australia.

Aboriginal Australia

Who Are Aborigines?

"The Dreamtime"

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/aboriginal1.html

The first Australians

        Aboriginals were the real founders of Australia because they came to this land thousands of years before white people discovered it. When white people came to Australia, they came to a land that already belonged to the Aboriginals. No one knows exactly where the Aboriginals lived before they came to Australia. It is known that Aboriginals came from somewhere in South-East Asia and that they left their homes and traveled to Australia in canoes or on rafts. Australian aboriginal culture is the oldest living culture in the world – at least 40,000 years old.

“This is our land. It goes back, a long way back, into the Dreamtime, into the land of our Dreaming. We made our camp here, and now all that is left of our presence are the ashes and the bones of the dead animals the young men had killed. Soon even our footprints will be carried away by the wind.”

Interesting to know!

Australia was not always in the location and shape it is recognized today. Millions of years ago, it was part of the great land mass called Gondwanaland. Later on, the continent of Australia began to drift away from this great land mass and around the Mesozoic era, dinosaurs roamed the land.

This era is referred to as prehistory rather than history because of the scarcity of written records of human events in Australia of that time.

Hope you've coped with the geography. Now let's move to Australian HISTORY.
This time only a brief look into the past of the country.  Check this TIMELINE http://www.timeforkids.com/destination/australia/history-timeline