History

• Australian Aborigines
  • There are claims that this race of people have existed in this country over 60,000 years while others claim a figure of about 40.000 years and some less than 4.000 years. Utilisation of different aging/date testing methods such as radio carbon and new luminesence tecnology brings about differing figures. Either way, aborigines have occupied this country for a long time.

• The Koorie Homepage
  • Pages of quality information regarding Koorie lifestyle, comtemporary issues and a comprehensive history
• The National Aboriginal History and Heritage Council
  • The National Aboriginal History and Heritage Council (NAHHC) is a voluntary organisation working for the recognition, respect, preservation and promotion of Aboriginal history and heritage.

• People and Government
  • Most of the population of Australia is of European descent. Australian aborigines account for less than 1% of the total.

• The Australian Aboriginal Origins And Art
  • A Very Brief Orientation by Lauri Fiedler

• The Aboriginal Flag
  • The Aboriginal Flag was designed by Harold Thomas, an artist and an Aboriginal, in 1971. The flag was designed to be an eye-catching rallying symbol for the Aboriginal people and a symbol of their race and identity. The black represents the Aboriginal people, the red the earth and their spiritual relationship to the land, and the yellow the sun, the giver of life.
• The Torres Strait Islander Flag
  • The Torres Strait Islander flag is attributed to the late Bernard Namok of Thursday Island.

• Citizenship and Australian Aborigines
  • Institutional influences on citizenship

• Aboriginal Australians
  • History of Aboriginal people at The Lonely Planet

• Bodysnatching and the Australian Aborigines
  • In the late 1800's and early 1900's many in the scientific community viewed non-Caucasian races as evolutionary ancestors, human subspecies, and/or not quite human. As a result of this thinking humans of certain races were treated as laboratory specimens.

• How new-Darwinism justified taking land from Aborigines and murdering them in Australia
  • By Jani Roberts

• The Massacres.
  • By Jani Roberts - Adapted from her book "Massacres to Mining: the colonization of Aborginal Australia." and from the book she is now completing, "Glitter and Greed".

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