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Indigenous Australia
Indigenous Australia is the term used to describe Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia. The term Indigenous means 'first' and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the first peoples of Australia.
Indigenous Australia is a multicultural society. It is not one group of people, there is not one language, nor religious belief. There is no one Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander culture.
As such, a student of Australia's indigenous peoples must be careful not to necessarily associate the cultural or relious beliefs of one group or tribe of indigenous Australians with another group.
In this section, material we refer to is generally information that applies to a significant proportion of the indigenous Australian peoples. However we will often link to specific groups within Indigenous culture to provide an example of different aspects of Indigenous Australia.
Find out more about the following -
• The Meaning of the Dreaming - The Dreaming tells of the journey and the actions of Ancestral Beings who created the natural world.
• Indigenous Issues - Of the issues that face indigenous Australians, the three most widely known are Land and Native Title, Reconciliation, and Separated Children.