Why are the Māori people, who arrived in the 1300s, so well recognized in NZ but Aboriginal Australians, who are said to be 65000 years old inhabitants, not so well recognized in Australia?

Question

I will be immigrating to either of these countries next year and was just reading about their history & culture, and found this weird.

The Europeans arrived in NZ just about 300 years after the Māori, yet majority of the cities/towns/hamlets you see in NZ are named after Māori names, Māori culture has been well integrated with the European culture and are very well recognized/respected, for example the Haka dance done on multiple occasions by the national rugby union team, the Māori name of NZ on the passport (Aotearoa), the Māori traditions and symbols etc.

But, you don’t see the same level of cognizance for Aboriginal Australians in Australia, even though they are said be 65000 years. There are hardly any cities named after Aboriginal names, no sign of Aboriginal culture integrated into the Australian lingo or cultural practices?

So, why does this incongruity exist between both the nations?

**EDIT**: Thank you so much for the detailed answers, everyone! I appreciate it dearly. Learnt a lot of new things today 🙂

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Answer 1

My thought is the difference is that Māori social structure allowed the chiefs to sign treaties they could enforce their people to follow their will.
The Aboriginal Australian chiefs could only persuade and those who didn’t like it could just move across to a different band.
Both peoples fought wars but where in Australia this was covered under martial law and genocidal shoot everyone militias formed by convicts lead by local landholders due to the “Terra Nullis” not recognising their farming practices . In NZ there was something the Europeans recognised and so elected for treaties.

As for the names as the people were pushed away and the land claimed in Oz, there were less first nations people around to give the name to places or correct the angelized.