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	:''This is an article about a class of people as identified and defined within Australian law. For more general information on Australian Aborigines go to ].''

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	'''Australian Aborigines''' are a class of peoples who are identified by ] law as being members of a ] indigenous to the ].

	In the ], Australian Aborigines have been specifically identified as a class of people who share, in common, biological ancestry back to the original occupants of this continent<ref name="QUT01"><small>Accessed 25 March 2008</small> </ref> .

	Justice Dean of the High Court famously described and defined an Australian Aboriginal person as:

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	''"..a person of Aboriginal descent, albeit mixed, who identifies himself as such and who is recognised by the Aboriginal community as an Aboriginal.."''<ref name="158CLR">Dean, J (1984) Tasmania v Commonwealth. 158 CLR. Page 243.</ref>
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	Eve Fesi, an Australian Aborigine from the Gabi Gabi people, published in the Aboriginal Law Bulletin describing how she and other Australian Aborigines preferred to be identified:

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	''"The word 'aborigine' refers to an indigenous person of any country. If it is to be used to refer to us as a specific group of people, it should be spelt with a capital 'A', i.e. 'Aborigine'..."''<ref name="Fesi01"> <small> Accessed 25 March 2008 </small> </ref>
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	==See also==
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	==External links==
	* <small>Accessed 25 March 2008</small>


	==References==
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	{{Indigenous Australians}}

	{{IndigenousAustralia-stub}}

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