Estimates of the Aboriginal population before British settlement range from 300,000 to 3 million.^[37] Aboriginal Australians cultures were (and remain) deeply connected with the land and the environment, with stories of The Dreaming maintained through oral tradition, songs, dance and paintings.^[38] Certain groups engaged in fire-stick farming,^[39][40] fish farming,^[41][42] and built semi-permanent shelters.^[43] These practices have variously been characterised as “hunter-gatherer“, “agricultural“, “natural cultivation” and “intensification”.^{[38][44][45][46]}