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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 ]
Roslyn Betty Poignant (12 May 1927 – 7 November 2019) was an Australian photographic anthropologist who collaboratively published, interpreted, and repatriated her husband Axel Poignant 's photos of indigenous peoples from Arnhem Land, Papua New Guinea, and Tahiti. Poignant was involved in photographing and writing about museum collections of ...
Moreton Bay, Moreton Island, Stradbroke Island and the rest of Redland Bay islands are the traditional homes of the Quandamooka people. The Quandamooka people (Jandai pronunciation: / ˈkwɒndəˌmʊkə /) are Aboriginal Australians who live around Moreton Bay in Southeastern Queensland. They are composed of three distinct tribes, the Nunukul ...
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist. He is best remembered for his work mapping the various tribal groupings of Aboriginal Australians at the time of European settlement, shown in his map published in 1940.
The history of Indigenous Australians began 50,000 to 65,000 years ago when humans first populated the Australian continental landmasses. [1][2][3][4] This article covers the history of Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, two broadly defined groups which each include other sub-groups defined by language and culture.
However, the net undercount of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was 17.4%, [245] and the estimated Indigenous population is around 952,000 to 1,000,000, or just under 4 per cent of the total population. [243] Growth to 2016 was mainly in major cities and along the eastern coast of Australia.
Jamie Oliver has apologized after his children's book was pulled from shelves following criticism from Indigenous Australians.. The celebrity chef, 49, said he was "devastated to have caused ...
Jurist. Patricia June O'Shane AM (born 1941) is a retired Australian teacher, barrister, public servant, jurist, and Aboriginal activist. She was Australia's first Aboriginal magistrate, serving the Local Court in Sydney, New South Wales, between 1986 until her retirement in 2013. O'Shane was the first female Aboriginal teacher in Queensland ...