Before revision: For current and former Commonwealth realms instead of the first head of state is listed as the first head of government.Independence won through Dominion of New Zealand20th century –gradual process20th processMany Indigenous Australians and supporters of the Australian Indigenous sovereignty movement would contest the status of Australia as decolonised, noting that neither colonial Britain nor the subsequent Commonwealth of Australia ever signed a treaty with any of the hundreds of distinct Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies that existed prior to colonisation and still exist today.
After revision: For current and former Commonwealth realms instead of the first head of state is listed as the first head of government.Independence won through Dominion of New Zealand20th century –gradual processMany Indigenous Australians and supporters of the Australian Indigenous sovereignty movement would contest the status of Australia as decolonised, noting that neither colonial Britain nor the subsequent Commonwealth of Australia ever signed a treaty with any of the hundreds of distinct Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies that existed prior to colonisation and still exist today.