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Aboriginal Australians (Topical Term)

Preferred form: Aboriginal Australians
Used for/see from:
  • Aboriginals, Australian
  • Aborigines, Australian
  • Australian aboriginal people
  • Australian aboriginals
  • Australians, Aboriginal
  • Australians, Native (Aboriginal Australians)
  • Native Australians (Aboriginal Australians)
  • Earlier heading: Australian aborigines
See also:

American Heritage dict. (Aborigines; Aboriginals; native Australians)

Broome, R. Aboriginal Australians: black responses to white dominance, 3rd ed., 2001.

Email from M. Walker, Gumbaynggir Aboriginal Woman from the Aboriginal Community of Nambucca Heads, NSW and Cultural Heritage Officer, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service ("Aboriginal Australians is preferred; Australian aborigines is derogatory and is offensive")

LC database, June 6, 2003 (Aboriginal Australians; Australian Aborigines)

Wikipedia, Mar. 25, 2009 ("Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands and their descendants.")

WWW, June 6, 2003 (Aboriginal Australians; Australian Aborigines; Australian Aboriginal peoples; Australian Aboriginals; Native Australians)