They were both wrong, as the Gadigal and other local Aboriginal people later proved by ambushing the convicts who were often sent to work into the bush. Sir Joseph Banks thought the Aboriginal people would run away and abandon their rights to land. Because they did not grow crops and because he assumed there were no inland fishable rivers, he concluded that Australia’s interior was empty. In 1770 Captain James Cook met few Aboriginal people on the Eastern Australian shoreline.
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