Dismantling the Australian Pygmy Myth

Here is an article by Nathan Sentence ( picture of him below )
https://scontent.fmel16-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.18172-8/21316367_10159283838780634_6372959070371829422_o.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=2TDw8eEOlRwAX-XKKY-&_nc_ht=scontent.fmel16-1.fna&oh=00_AfA0ZcnafOWcOOuViKhDOJSKaG35_yQ63TQxizgx_d_b7A&oe=65233FEB

He claims to be an Australian Aboriginal of the Wiradjuri people even though he is clearly a white man though no doubt with some Aboriginal ancestry.

Here is an excerpt from his article that puts his position clearly:

You may have heard this myth before that there was a race of pygmy people who had been on the land that is now called Australia, who were here for several millennia before Aboriginal people, only to have their land stolen and be completely wiped out by Aboriginal people. There is a problem with this story, namely that there is no evidence from the archaeological and biological records that a pygmy population ever existed in Australia or any people prior to Aboriginal people (1). So then why does this myth exist and persist?


Why does this myth persist ? Oh I don't know, maybe it has something to do with photos like this one:

https://quadrant.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Pygmies-1.jpg