Australia's First People In Australia Poem by Francis Duggan

The ways of their culture we do not understand
The very first people of this great Southern Land
For the brown outback they know how to care
And of the needs of Nature they seem far more aware

Than the descendants of the northern races could ever hope to be
The true beauty in the Country they love they do see
They love their Country for the love of it not for financial gain
Which to the vast majority of people of other races may seem hard to explain

Australia's wealthiest tycoons make their billions off of their Land today
But they remain as poor people and live in a simple way
Yet their love for their Country remains ever strong
And their wise elders will tell you we do not own the Country to the Country we belong

Australia's first people in Australia should always take pride of place
But in the great Southern Land sad to say this is not the case
What should be and what is are quite different one must say
And the Country's first people in Australia is among it's poorest of today.