Indigenous Australian

Aboriginal australians comprise many distinct peoples who have developed across australia for over 50 000 years.

Indigenous australian. Customary law is a term used to describe the laws and ways of living handed down to aboriginal people by the ancestral beings. Australia s first people known as aboriginal australians have lived on the continent for over 50 000 years. The term aboriginal and torres strait islander people or the person s specific cultural group their mob is often preferred though the terms first nations of australia first peoples of australia. Today there are 250 distinct language groups spread throughout australia.

The question of who breathes and who suffocates is a question of who deserves to live. Generally speaking there are two distinct groups of indigenous people in australia torres strait islanders who come from the torres strait islands north of cape york in queensland and aboriginal people who come from all other parts of australia. It is generally held that they originally came from asia via insular southeast asia and have been in australia for at least 45 000 50 000 years. Aihw reports and other products include information about indigenous australians where data quality permits.

Many indigenous australians live under two legal systems the british based australian legal system and the indigenous customary law system. Indigenous australians are descended from the people who lived in australia and the surrounding islands prior to european colonisation. Connecting aboriginal and torres strait islander people with australian government policies and programmes. Survey of the history society and culture of the australian aboriginal peoples who are one of the two distinct indigenous cultural groups of australia.

Aboriginal australians is a western term for the people who are from the australian mainland and many of its islands such as tasmania fraser island hinchinbrook island the tiwi islands and groote eylandt but excluding the torres strait islands. Indigenous australians are people with familial heritage to groups that lived in australia before british colonisation they include the aboriginal and torres strait islander peoples of australia. Sovereignty amazingly in 2018 many young non indigenous australians still have very little understanding of the historical and contemporary realiti.