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When European colonizers first came to Australia in the 17th century, the country had been inhabited for 50,000 years by Southeast Asian settlers. The British settlers, for a long time mainly convicts deported there, still to this day subjected the indigenous people, the Aborigines, to a brutal and degrading treatment. Today, Australia is a modern industrial and service society. Politically, the country has been a close ally of the United States since World War II.