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Australian Aboriginal culture. Australian Aboriginal culture includes a number of practices and ceremonies centered on a belief in the Dreamtime and other mythology. Reverence and respect for the land and oral traditions are emphasised. The words "law" and "lore", the latter relating to the customs and stories passed down through the ...
e. Australian culture is of primarily Western origins. British culture has historically had an outsized influence on Australian culture and society. Australia's unique geography and the contributions of its Indigenous population (Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders) and immigrants (especially during the gold rushes of the 1850s ...
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.
Aboriginal Australians have a wide variety of cultural practices and beliefs that make up the oldest continuous cultures in the world. [4] [5] At the time of European colonisation of Australia, the Aboriginal people consisted of complex cultural societies with more than 250 languages [6] and varying degrees of technology and settlements.
The concept of First Nations Australian traditional custodianship derives from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' strong traditional connection with the lands and seas they reside on, known collectively as "Country". [ 6][ 7][ 8] The term "traditional custodian" is often used interchangeably with "traditional owner" in the context ...
The term Stolen Generations refers to those children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were forcibly removed [177] 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.
Indigenous customary law is not uniform across Australia, and systems differ greatly between language groups, clans, and regions. [4] Within some Aboriginal Australian communities, the words "law" and "lore" are words used to differentiate between the Indigenous and post-colonial legal systems. The word "law" is taken to refer to the legal ...
In Australia, Indigenous land rights or Aboriginal land rights are the rights and interests in land of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people; the term may also include the struggle for those rights. Connection to the land and waters is vital in Australian Aboriginal culture and to that of Torres Strait Islander people, and ...