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  2. Aboriginal Australians - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  3. Indigenous Australians - Wikipedia

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    Aboriginal peoples of Australia are the various peoples indigenous to mainland Australia and associated islands, excluding the Torres Strait Islands. The broad term Aboriginal Australians includes many regional groups that may be identified under names based on local language, locality, or what they are called by neighbouring groups.

  4. History of Indigenous Australians - Wikipedia

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    The Nationality and Citizenship Act of 1948 also gave citizenship to any Indigenous people born in Australia. [197] In 1949, the right to vote in federal elections was extended to Indigenous Australians who had served in the armed forces, or were enrolled to vote in state elections.

  5. List of Australian Aboriginal group names - Wikipedia

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    The list does not include Torres Strait Islander peoples, who are ethnically, culturally and linguistically distinct from Australian Aboriginal peoples, although also an Indigenous Australian people. Typically, Aboriginal Australian mobs [1] are differentiated by language groups. [2] Most Aboriginal people could name a number of groups of which ...

  6. Australian Aboriginal culture - Wikipedia

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    Woggabaliri is a traditional Indigenous Australian "co-operative kicking volley game". [54] The Indigenous in areas of and near New South Wales played a ball game called Woggabaliri. The ball was usually made of possum fur, and was played in a group of four to six players in circle. It was a co-operative kicking game to see for how long the ...

  7. Australian Aboriginal identity - Wikipedia

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    Aboriginal Australian identity, sometimes known as Aboriginality, is the perception of oneself as Aboriginal Australian, or the recognition by others of that identity. Aboriginal Australians are one of two Indigenous Australian groups of peoples, the other being Torres Strait Islanders.

  8. Indigenous peoples of Oceania - Wikipedia

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    The term 'Indigenous Australians' refers to both the Aboriginal peoples of mainland Australia and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Of the total 'Indigenous Australian' population, 90% identified as Aboriginal only, 6% identified as Torres Strait Islander and the remaining 4% identified as being of both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

  9. A longstanding advocate for the rights of Indigenous people, Ms Thorpe, though an environmentalist like the King, ultimately left the Australian Greens in 2023 following clashes over the proposed ...