No I didn't know that, New Caledonia looks nice though, more fancy than Manly beach in Sydney. Either way the aboriginals would've industrialised with globalisation with or without colonisation, colonisation just sped it up. There are certain world trends that are inevitable, and globalisation is one of them.
How would have our indigenous peoples "inevitably" created writing, mathematics, metallurgy, mechanics, engineering, chemistry, pharmaceuticals and electronics without an outside influence?
Sure, you could argue it was inevitable (but that is a really bizarre assumption). You don't know how long though.
It could have taken four decades or 400,000 years. No one knows how long it would have taken without European colonisation.
It is really strange you don't consider colonisation as part of the set of phenomena classified as globalisation; both were predicated on lower cost transport and communications.
