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An overview of efforts by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people...
Video: © Behind the News (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
A discussion of the languages of Indigenous Australians.
Video: © University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
A tour of the area around Cooktown in the Australian state of Queensland, including...
Video: © Fun Travel TV (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
An overview of efforts to preserve Indigenous languages in Australia, with a focus...
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A discussion of Mabo Day, celebrated on June 3, which commemorates Torres Strait...
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Overview of Uluru/Ayers Rock, Northern Territory, Australia.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Images
Aboriginal people from Galiwnku Island gathering to watch the proceedings at which...
Mark Graham/AP Images
Fish-trapping fence in north-central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia....
Courtesy of AIATSIS; creator, Jon C. Altman (collection no. N03211_35)
Australian Aboriginal people at an event called a corroboree. This ceremony consists...
Courtesy of the Australian News and Information Bureau, New York
Aboriginal warrior bearing traditional body paint and ritual scars, Western Australia,...
Courtesy of AIATSIS; creator, Commander H.T. Bennett D.S.Q. (collection no. D00029608)
An Australian Aboriginal warrior preparing to throw a boomerang.
©Rafael Ben-Ari/Fototlia
Replica of the bark canoes historically used by Australian Aboriginal peoples.
Courtesy of AIATSIS; creator Jon C. Altman (collection item no. N03187_23)
Australian Aboriginal people demonstrating combat with waddies (traditional war clubs),...
Courtesy of AIATSIS; creator, Commander H.T. Bennett D.S.Q. (collection no. D00029609)
Cave painting from Northern Territory, Australia, of a spirit figure associated with...
Courtesy of AIATSIS; creator, Robert Edwards (collection no. N07706_07)
An Australian Aboriginal person playing a didjeridu.
© Grant Faint—Photodisc/Getty Images
Ochre, traditionally used by Aboriginal Australian peoples to decorate objects, to...
Courtesy of AIATSIS (collection item no. 000125440)
Rock painting of a lizardlike creature, Hawker, South Australia.
Holle Bildarchiv, Baden-Baden, Germany
Aboriginal rock painting in western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, which...
Courtesy of AIATSIS (collection item no. 73746)
Pemulwuy, an Australian Aboriginal warrior who fought European settlers and was killed...
In James Grant "The narrative of a voyage of discovery, performed in His Majesty's vessel the Lady Nelson ..."; Whitehall, T. Egerton, 1804. Courtesy of the Rare Books Collection of the State Library of Victoria, Australia
An image from an Australian government report published in 1929 that depicts an Aboriginal...
Courtesy of AIATSIS; creator, J.W. Bleakley (collection item no. N06453_02A)
Protesters supporting the rights of the Aboriginal people of Australia during the...
State Library of New South Wales
Aboriginal rock art at Nourlangie Rock in Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory,...
© Roberto Pecci/Dreamstime.com
Painting on bark of a monitor lizard in X-ray style by Baboa, from Arnhem Land, Australia;...
Courtesy of the Städtisches Museum für Völkerkunde, Frankfurt am Main, Ger.
Aboriginal cave paintings, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Courtesy of the Australian Information Service
Aboriginal stockmen taking a break from work on a cattle station in Wyndham, Western...
National Archives of Australia: A1200, L11712
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