Indigenous People Of Australia

Indigenous or aboriginal australians who lived across the territory of what is today australia.

Indigenous people of australia. In the 1960s indigenous people were given the right to vote and were counted in the australian census. Aboriginal australians comprise many distinct peoples who have developed across australia for over 50 000 years. Indigenous peoples is the most commonly accepted way of referring to us as a collective group it s the equivalent of saying the british or australians. Generally indigenous australians are characterized by two groupings.

The 1980s saw the promise of treaties with indigenous peoples thanks to prime minister bob hawke s barunga statement which set out to recognize the rights of aboriginals and torres strait islanders and later the mabo agreement and the native title act. Indigenous australians are descended from the people who lived in australia and the surrounding islands prior to european colonisation. Before the arrival of british colonisers in 1788 australia was inhabited by the indigenous peoples aborigines and torres strait islanders sometimes referred to as the first australians. The department of the prime minister and cabinet acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians of country throughout australia and acknowledges their continuing connection to land waters and community.

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. 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. 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. We pay our respects to the people the cultures and the elders past present and emerging.

Indigenous peoples and cultures. In international law indigenous acknowledges that a person s ancestors lived on particular lands before other people arrived and became dominant. Australian aboriginal peoples one of the two distinct groups of indigenous peoples of australia the other being the torres strait islander peoples. 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.

Aboriginal people inhabited the whole of australia and torres strait islanders lived on the islands between australia and.