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Aboriginal Australians along the coast and rivers were also expert fishermen. Some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people relied on the dingo as a companion animal, using it to assist with hunting and for warmth on cold nights. Aboriginal women's implements, including a coolamon lined with paperbark and a digging stick. This woven basket ...
Aboriginal labour in the state was recorded as 1,640 men and 706 women, nearly 7% of the total white population of the time, estimated at 30,013 people. June 1881 The first judicial court held on Brockman's station. Four Aboriginal men were tried and sentenced to be transported to Rottnest Island. Aboriginal resistance in the north grew in ...
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.
Woretemoeteryenner (c.1795 - 1847) a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman and sealer; Woureddy (c.1790 - 1842) an Aboriginal Tasmanian warrior and cleverman; Wylie (c.1825 - ?) an Aboriginal guide who stayed with Edward John Eyre in their crossing of the Nullarbor; Yagan (c.1795 - 1833) a Western Australian Indigenous leader of the 1830s
First Aboriginal Australian to be ordained deacon in the Anglican Church of Australia (then called the Church of England in Australia): James Noble (clergyman). [28] First Torres Strait Islanders to be ordained priests in the Anglican Church of Australia (then called the Church of England in Australia): Joseph Lui and Poey Passi. [28] 1927
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 ...
1970 - More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War; 1971 - Neville Bonner becomes the first Aboriginal to become an Australian Member of Parliament; John Gorton resigns and is succeeded by William McMahon; 1971 - The 1971 Springbok tour sparks protest all throughout Australia.
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 Indigenous peoples; Arabanoo; Walter George Arthur; Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association