Imagine indeed.yovargas wrote:But.....can you imagine any serious university telling it's students it is inappropriate to say that stuff happened more than 6K years ago? That'd be ridiculous.
Colleges & Universities That Believe or Teach Biblical Creation
Although I suppose the definition of "serious" could be debated.
In any case, if you use AD after your year number, you've no room to complain about Dreamtime.
ETA:
To clarify, in the academic discussion of how Australia was settled, I would refer to the actual historical dates. When talking to the Indigenous Australians or about them in non-academic context, I would have no problem saying that they believe that they have been there since the beginning, which they call Dreaming/s, and that they were the earliest human occupants as far as we know.
Re: invasion
“the Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the society's members already had people in them, who were already trying to sell snakes to the newcomers.”
Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals