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interests of the so-called under-developed countries who seem to ignore the fact that most of the misery in the world today stems from “over-development.”

In the case of the so-called “primitive” peoples, the impact of modemization is inseparable from their degradation and often their extinctionr

There is general agreement among anthropologists that the aborigine people migrated to Australia from Southern Asia at least 30,000 years ago. The Tuibanian aborigines, completely killed oft’ after beginning of the European colonization, were thought to have been in AusiraUa even longer than the mainland aborigines. When Captain Cook stepped on Australian soil, the aborigine population was about 30,000 and growing. Along with European colonization came many new discalel to which the indigenous population had no immunity: small·pox, the common cold~ the eye diseases infected by the common fly, venereal diseases and leprosy. Theae diseases coupled with massacres and en-mas” poisoningneatly excluded from the Australian history boob-mercilessly reduced the aborigine population within a short time. From being some of the healthiest people in the world, the black Australians are now one of th.e most undernourished. When the coloniats arrived in’Australia, those who refused to ~t the Bible and. be “civilized,” lOst their lives; others who accepted lost their cultUre and identity.

Today, the black Australians can be divided into three ~te-

gorieS-tribal blacb, reserve blacks ~d urban blacks. The

“ life-style of the tribal blacks, now under great stress, is breaking down as they are unable to find food in the traditional ways and are unable to survive as tribes. The current intensification in the search for and exploitation of AUI~’s

mineral resources to meet·the ever-increasing dcsnancb of the technologically advanced metropolitan countries. u,! brought tribal aborigines of the hitherto remote iIlterior in~ clOie

contact with white society. The economically use1iss hinterland