Aboriginals have occupied Australia for approximately 40 thousand years.
Europeans colonised Australia around 220 years ago. Through the process of colonisation, Aboriginals were murdered, raped and enslaved; their children were also stolen.
That's why intelligent, educated, racially-accepting people found it necessary to, as a nation, say "sorry" to the Aboriginal people.
With that said, over the coming decades Australia will once again be colonised. For example, as two-thirds of the world's wealthy will be Asian in 15 years, many Asians will choose to emigrate to Australia.
On that note, empirical data demonstrates that the Chinese are now the number one foreign buyers of Australian property.
