Aboriginal Australians: Difference between revisions

Aboriginal people have lived for tens of thousands of years on the [[continent of Australia]], through its various changes in landmass. The area within [[Australia]]'s borders today includes the islands of [[Tasmania]], [[Fraser Island|K'gari (previously Fraser Island)]], [[Hinchinbrook Island]],<ref name=actoss>{{cite web|url=https://www.actcoss.org.au/sites/default/files/public/publications/gulanga-good-practice-guide-preferences-terminology-referring-to-aboriginal-torres-strait-islander-peoples.pdf|publisher= ACT Council of Social Service Inc.|series=Gulanga Good Practice Guides|title=Preferences in terminology when referring to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples|date=December 2016|access-date=16 December 2019}}</ref> the [[Tiwi Islands]], [[Kangaroo Island]] and [[Groote Eylandt]]. Indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands, however, are not Aboriginal.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019C00143|title=Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976|date=4 April 2019|website=Federal Register of Legislation|publisher=Australian Government|series=No. 191, 1976: Compilation No. 41|quote= s 3: Aboriginal means a person who is a member of the Aboriginal race of Australia....12AAA. Additional grant to Tiwi Land Trust...|access-date=12 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019C00083|title=Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005|series=No. 150, 1989: Compilation No. 54|date=4 April 2019|website=Federal Register of Legislation|publisher=Australian Government|access-date=12 December 2019}} s 4: "'''''Aboriginal person''''' means a person of the Aboriginal race of Australia."</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=viM4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA29|title=A death in the Tiwi islands: conflict, ritual, and social life in an Australian aboriginal community|last=Venbrux|first=Eric|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=1995|isbn=978-0-521-47351-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|website=ABC Religion and Ethics|url=https://www.abc.net.au/religion/tiwi-christianity-aboriginal-histories-catholic-mission-and-a-su/10095012|title=Tiwi Christianity: Aboriginal histories, Catholic mission and a surprising conversion|first=Laura |last=Rademaker|date=7 February 2018|access-date=12 December 2019}}</ref>

 

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||2006 ||455,028 ||45,025 ||11.0