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Indigenous Australian communities currently have significant problems with alcohol. What is the history behind this? Was alcohol ever used as a ‘weapon’ by the settlers/invaders to deliberately subdue Indigenous groups?

by /u/mrwhappy in /r/AskHistorians

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