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Australian Aborigines are a class of peoples who are identified by Australian law as being members of a race indigenous to mainland Australia.
Within Australia's High Court, Australian Aborigines have been identified as a class of people who share, in common, biological ancestry back to the original occupants of this continent .
Justice Dean of the High Court famously defined an Australian Aboriginal person as:
"..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>
Eve Fesi of the Gabi Gabi peoples published in the Aboriginal Law Bulletin:
"The word 'aborigine' refers to an indigenous person of any country. If it is to be used to refer to us (Australian Aborigines)as a specific group of people, it should be spelt with a capital 'A', i.e. 'Aborigine'..."
See also
External links
- PLEVITZ, Loretta D & CROFT, Larry (2003) "Aboriginality Under The Microscope: The Biological Descent Test In Australian Law" QUT Law & Justice Journal Number 7Accessed 25 March 2008
References
- PLEVITZ, Loretta D & CROFT, Larry (2003) "Aboriginality Under The Microscope: The Biological Descent Test In Australian Law" QUT Law & Justice Journal Number 7Accessed 25 March 2008
- FESI, Eve (1986) "‘Aborigine’ and ‘Aboriginal’" Aboriginal Law Bulletin. Number 39. Accessed 25 March 2008
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