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The first people in Australia were the indigenous people, but as they arrived many thousands of years ago, it can only be speculated that they came by canoes and the land bridge that existed across from Asia.

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Dinosaurs.

Insofar as we know, the Aborigines were the first people to live in Australia.


There has been evidence found of a species of hominids living in the interior of NSW prior to aboriginal settlement but this is uncorroborated due to sketchy data

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I was looking around for the same thing and stumbled across this article. http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25338-2286453,00.html

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