“The leader of our country, Tony Abbott, this morning declared that Australia was “nothing but bush” prior to British settlement.

Yep, those words you read are just correct: as New Matilda reports, our Prime Minister  announced to an international audience (including British Prime Minister David Cameron) that there was literally nothing going on in Australia before Captain Cook et al sailed in, effectively erasing over 60,000 years of indigenous history and culture in this country.”