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Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the African continent around 70,000 years ago, and arrived in Australia around 50,000 years ago; today they represent about 2.2 per cent of the population.

At the start of European settlement, there were over 250–300 spoken languages with 600 dialects spoken in Australia; however, fewer than 200 of these remain in use – and all but 20 are considered to be endangered.

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Michele Yellow Robe
I blows my mind to witness this behavior from people's whom run this country and the USA! They ( the so called leaders of countries) should be the ones leading...
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John Ahni Schertow
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John Ahni Schertow
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Frederick Thornton
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Tom Duncan
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Jay Taber
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Kia ora, I would like to say unless they, ( those who say no more Full- Blooded Maori), know the whakapapa of every single Maori in Aotearoa, they should just...
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Endra Hood Anderson
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