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v. t. e. Slavery in Australia has existed in various forms from colonisation in 1788 to the present day. European settlement relied heavily on convicts, sent to Australia as punishment for crimes and forced into labour and often leased to private individuals. Many Aboriginal and African Australians were also forced into various forms of slavery ...
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. Humans first migrated to Australia at least 65,000 years ago, and over time formed as many as 500 language-based groups. [3]
The genocide of Indigenous Australians is the systematic and deliberate actions taken primarily by British colonisers and their descendants, particularly during the 18th to the 20th centuries, aimed at eradicating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, languages, and people. [1] Motivations for the genocide varied, and included ...
The history of Indigenous Australians began 50,000 to 65,000 years ago when humans first populated the Australian continental landmasses. [1][2][3][4] This article covers the history of Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, two broadly defined groups which each include other sub-groups defined by language and culture.
In Australia, Indigenous land rights or Aboriginal land rights are the rights and interests in land of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people; the term may also include the struggle for those rights. Connection to the land and waters is vital in Australian Aboriginal culture and to that of Torres Strait Islander people, and ...
After settlement the Aborigines were used as slave labour in the emerging commercial industry. [125] During the early 1870s, Francis Cadell became involved in whaling, trading, pearling and blackbirding in North-West Australia. [126] Cadell and others became notorious for their coercion, capture and sale of Aboriginal people as slaves. [127]
Truganini, the last to survive, is seated at far right. The Aboriginal Tasmanians (Palawa kani: Palawa or Pakana[4]) are [5] the Aboriginal people of the Australian island of Tasmania, located south of the mainland. At the time of European contact Tasmanian Aboriginals were divided into a number of distinct ethnic groups.
The Tiwi people (or Tunuvivi[a]) are one of the many Aboriginal groups of Australia. Nearly 2,000 Tiwi people live on Bathurst and Melville Islands, which make up the Tiwi Islands, lying about 48 kilometres (30 mi) from Darwin. The Tiwi language is a language isolate, with no apparent link to the languages of Arnhem Land on the Australian mainland.