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The Australian Aboriginal flag was designed in 1971 by Harold Thomas, an Aboriginal artist who is descended from the Luritja people of Central Australia. In 1972, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established on the steps of Old Parliament House in Canberra, the Australian capital, to demand sovereignty for the Aboriginal Australian peoples. [240]
Truganini (c.1812 - 1876) the last "full-blooded" Tasmanian Aboriginal person to have survived British colonisation; Tullamareena a member of Wirundgeri, Melbourne; Tunnerminnerwait (c.1812 - 1842) a Tasmanian Aboriginal Australian who acted as a guide for George Augustus Robinson and was executed for resisting British colonisation.
Aboriginal candidate Ben Wyatt is set to become Western Australian Treasurer, the highest political post ever held by an Aboriginal person in Western Australian history. May 2020 Rio Tinto destroy Juukan Gorge 1 and 2 Aboriginal Heritage sites , that had deep historical and cultural significance, dating back 46,000 years.
The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the last glacial period. [1] [2] Arriving by sea, they settled the continent and had formed approximately 250 distinct language groups by the time of European settlement, maintaining some of the longest known continuing artistic and religious traditions in the world.
The term Aboriginal Australians includes many distinct peoples who have developed across Australia for over 50,000 years. [ 15 ] [ 61 ] These peoples have a broadly shared, though complex, genetic history, [ 62 ] [ 40 ] but it is only in the last two hundred years that they have been defined and started to self-identify as a single group, socio ...
Aboriginal dugout canoe; Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972; Aboriginal heritage inquiry system; Aboriginal Protection Act 1869; List of Aboriginal Reserves in New South Wales; Aboriginal Tent Embassy; Aboriginal tracker; Aborigines Progressive Association; Aborigines' Friends' Association; Apologies to Indigenous peoples; Apology to Australia's ...
The study of Aboriginal history in Western Australia has been enhanced in recent years by people like Lois Tilbrook [13] who have started collecting information and records on key Aboriginal Families in WA. Due to the comprehensiveness of the records of the Department of Native Affairs, more is known about Aboriginal families than about most ...
Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) is a dialect of Australian English used by a large section of the Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander) population. Australian Kriol is an English-based creole language that developed from a pidgin used in the early days of European colonisation.