What do you understand by the term aborigines? How is their point of view represented in Australian literature?

Blacks do not understand freehold tenure and are not used to a lot of money. They live out in areas where they don’t use it much. They catch birds and goanas and fish and this sort of thing . . .. The women do not wear ‘very expensive dresses’ and neither do the men. The fact that they drink a lot now doesn’t do them any good. They just can’t do it. Years ago when they didn’t want to drink they were very good people . . ..’ (Ward and Robertson, 340- 41)