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Dingo on the beach at Fraser Island, Queensland. The dingo (either included in the species Canis familiaris, or considered one of the following independent taxa: Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo) is an ancient lineage of dog [5] [6] found in Australia.
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.
Marsupials and monotremes also existed on other continents, but only in Australia-New Guinea did they come to dominate. Aside from marine mammals, only two orders of placental mammals are native to Australia-New Guinea: rodents and bats. Dingoes and New Guinea singing dogs are considered feral dogs (Canis familiaris) introduced by humans. [2]
The first Indigenous political organisation was the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association, established in 1924, with 11 branches and more than 500 Indigenous members in a year. [184] It had been partly inspired by Marcus Garvey. [184] In 1926, the Native Union in Western Australia was founded. [185]
Charles Perkins (1936 - 2000) a pioneering Indigenous activist, sportsman and academic; Hetty Perkins (c. 1895 - 1979) was an Eastern Arrernte elder who worked for The Bungalow; she is the mother of Charles Perkins; Reg Saunders (1920 - 1990) the first Aboriginal Australian to be commissioned as an officer in the Australian Army
Tourists have been warned to be wary of dingoes while travelling in Australia following a series of attacks on toddlers at a popular holiday destination in Queensland.. Four bites by the native ...
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.
A pack of dingoes drove a woman who was jogging into the surf and attacked her in the latest clash between native dogs and humans on a popular Australian island, sparking new warnings Tuesday to ...