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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. Australian Aboriginal identity - Wikipedia

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    (For the purposes of the Australian Census, the last factor is excluded as impractical.) [16] A definition was proposed by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in the Report on a Review of the Administration of the Working Definition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Canberra, 1981): "An Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander is a person ...

  4. Aboriginal Provisional Government - Wikipedia

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    Jack Davis, a well-known Aboriginal poet from WA, gave APG permission to use part of his poem about an Aboriginal nation. The APG letterhead carries Jack's words at the bottom of the page. The Australian government shunned the APG after the APG declared it would only meet on a government to government basis, not as a lobby group.

  5. New Deal for Aborigines - Wikipedia

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    The New Deal for Aborigines (or Aboriginal New Deal) was a landmark Australian federal government policy statement on Indigenous Australians.The policy was announced in December 1938 by interior minister John McEwen and detailed in a white paper released in February 1939.

  6. Aboriginal reserve - Wikipedia

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    An Aboriginal reserve, also called simply reserve, was a government-sanctioned settlement for Aboriginal Australians, created under various state and federal legislation. Along with missions and other institutions, they were used from the 19th century to the 1960s to keep Aboriginal people separate from the white Australian population.

  7. Indigenous Australian self-determination - Wikipedia

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    The National Aboriginal Consultative Committee (NACC) was the first elected body representing Indigenous Australians on the national level, having been established by the Whitlam government in 1972. [7] It was composed of 36 representatives elected by Aboriginal people in 36 regions of Australia. [7]

  8. Indigenous Australians - Wikipedia

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    The Stolen Generations were those children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were forcibly removed [174] from their families by the Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions for the purpose of eradicating Aboriginal culture, under acts of their respective parliaments.

  9. History of Indigenous Australians - Wikipedia

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    In 2004, the Australian Government abolished The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), which had been Australia's top Indigenous organisation. The Commonwealth cited corruption and, in particular, made allegations concerning the misuse of public funds by ATSIC's chairman, Geoff Clark , as the principal reason.