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Bookmark or Share- First Peoples of Australia | AIATSIS corporate websiteAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the first peoples of Australia, meaning they were here for thousands of years prior to colonisation. There are varying estimates for how long Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have lived on this continent, however, upwards of 60,000 years is what current research reveals.
- Why Aboriginal Australians are still fighting for recognitionAustralia’s first people—known as Aboriginal Australians—have lived on the continent for over 65,000 years. Diverse and culturally distinctive, they are represented by more than 250 distinct...
- Australian Aboriginal peoples | History, Facts, & Culture | BritannicaSurvey of the history, society, and culture of the Australian Aboriginal peoples, who are one of the two distinct Indigenous cultural groups 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.
- Australian Aboriginal peoples - Culture, Traditions, Beliefs | BritannicaAustralian Aboriginal peoples - Culture, Traditions, Beliefs: By the time of European settlement in 1788, Aboriginal peoples had occupied and utilized the entire continent and adapted successfully to a large range of ecological and climatic conditions, from wet temperate and tropical rainforests to extremely arid deserts.
- Indigenous Australians: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peopleAustralia’s Indigenous peoples are two distinct cultural groups made up of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. But there is great diversity within these two broadly described groups exemplified by the over 250 different language groups spread across the nation.
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