#there are over 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities still living in Australia

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Anon from earlier about Sam's family. Thanks for letting me know that tribe was an offensive term for the Aboriginal people. I'm not Australian and didn't know. I apologize. And yes, people were using that term on twitter when talking about it. It's all in very bad faith.

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You're very welcome, anon, and I appreciate the acknowledgement. I figured it was probably the terminology being used, and you just didn't know, but it's really kind of you to own it, apologise and be open to learning.

I'm kind of a bit lucky in this sense, because I have a few Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander friends from across different Nations, and I work with a lot of First Nations people in different capacities (actors, writers and artists at the theatre company, of course, but one of my areas of specialisation as a freelance writer is in people-related safety, so I have a - - mm, I don't want to say expertise, because I think this is a space you're always learning in, but perhaps an area of qualification (?) in writing about child safety, gender-based safety in the workplace, and racial and cultural safety, particularly with First Nations people, in which I usually work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to develop documents on what helps them to feel safe in different contexts. I've written these sorts of things for schools, health services and arts venues, so I have a lot of conversations with people in different capacities too. I'm also on the theatre I work at's Reconciliation Action Working Group, so yes! Having a lot of robust conversations every day, haha).

But yeah. It's quite telling to me that someone would stress a level of 'care' over what happened to those First Nations people while using a term that many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples would consider a slur. To do that level of research into a family Sam could possibly be related to, and then to weaponise a community while calling that community something they'd find derogatory just makes it beyond obvious what the intentions behind it are. It would take two minutes to look up any of the many, many guides that exist about this, but those communities aren't who they actually care about. They're just grist for the mill.

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The Winners Of The 2020 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards

The Winners Of The 2020 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards

Art

by Sally Tabart

Tjala Women’s Collaborative with their artwork Nganampa Ngura 2020. Collaborators: Amy Scotty, Angela Burton, Freda Brady, Glenda Adamson, Iluwanti Ken, Janie Kulyuru, Mary Pan, Naomi Kantjuriny, Nita Williamson, Nyurpaya Kaika Burton, Rachel Lyons, Sharon Adamson, Shirley Adamson, Tanya Brady, Tjimpayi Presley. Photo – courtesy of Tjala Arts.

Shortlisted artworks. Left: Ngayuku ngura – My Country 2020 by Wawiriya Burton. Right: Nganampa Ngura 2020 by Tjala Women’s Collaborative.

Shortlisted artwork. No Respect 2020 by John Prince Siddon.

Shortlisted artists and artworks. Left: Ginger Wikilyiri. Photo – courtesy of Tjungu Palya Arts. Right: Kunamata 2020 by Ginger Wikilyiri.

Shortlisted artists and artworks. Left: Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country) 2020 by Betty Muffler. Right: Betty Muffler. Photo – Courtesy of the Artist and Iwantja Arts.

Left: Wanampi Tjukurpa (Piltati) 2020 by Leah Brady. Right: Antara 2020 by Betty Kuntiwa Pumani and Marina Pumani Brown.

On Friday the country’s most prestigious awards for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists were held, under slightly different circumstances than usual. Gamilaroi woman and host of The Today Show Brooke Boney presented the first-ever live online broadcast for NATSIAA, a dynamic and exciting celebration of the seven category winners chosen from 65 shortlisted entries.

The biggest win of the night went to Ngarralja Tommy May, a Wangkajunga and Walmajarri artist who took out the Telstra Art Award for his work Wirrkanja depicting his family’s Country, with a prize of $50,000. The six other category winners – Adrian Jangala Robertson, Iluwanti Ken, Marrnyula Munyngurr, Siena Mayutu Wurmarri Stubbs, Jenna Lee and Cecilia Umbagai – each took home $5,000 for their achievements.

There was a wide variety of mediums represented in the winning artists. Multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer Jenna Lee, who won the Wandjuk Marika Memorial 3D Award for her work HIStory vessels, used the cover and pages of the Ladybird History Book ‘The Story Of Captain Cook’ to create a series of sculptures based on ancestral vessels. ‘For me, it was never about winning. I love the community that’s formed around the NATSIAA – all the artists follow each other and get to know each other’, says Jenna. ‘It’s so nice that industry experts agree that what I’m trying to say, and make, and the stories I’m trying to tell are important.’

There’s still one major award to be decided – The People’s Choice Award. Take a tour of the NATSIAA virtual gallery to see all the incredible shortlisted projects and cast your vote!

Left: Wirrkanja 2020 by Ngarralja Tommy May. Right: Ngarralja Tommy May, winner of the 2020 Telstra art Award. Photo – Damian Kelly.

Telstra Art Award – Ngarralja Tommy May 

Ngarralja Tommy May is a Wangkajunga and Walmajarri man born in Yarrkurnja in the Great Sandy Desert, and currently living in Fitzroy Crossing. He is a founding member of the Karrayili Adult Education centre where he learnt to read and write his own language and English.

Using etching on metal and enamel paint as his medium, Wirrkanja tells the story of Tommy May’s Country.

‘This is about my Country. There is a claypan, near to Kurtal it’s also called Helena Springs, a well on the Canning Stock Route’, explains Tommy May. ‘My brother was born here. There’s living water (jila) at Kurtal, when it rains it fills up and makes a spring. It runs out this way, flows around the rocks and caves.’

‘Thank you mob in Darwin for this business. Thank you. At last. I feel proud. I’ve been trying all my life, all the time second, fourth, last, sometimes nothing. But I got it now, today. My days, my time this year, I’m the winner. At last.’

Left: Artist Jenna Lee, winner of the Wandjuk Marika Memorial 3D Award. Photo – Rhett Hammerton. Right: HIStory Vessels 2020 by Jenna Lee.

Left: Muṉguymirri 2020 by Marrnyula Munuŋgur. Right: Marrnyula Munuŋgur, winner of the Telstra Bark Painting Award. Photo – courtesy of NATSIAA.

Left: Walawulu ngunytju kukaku ananyi (Mother eagles going hunting) by Iluwanti Ken. Right: Iluwanti Ken, winner of the Telstra Works On Paper Award.

Wandjuk Marika Memorial 3D Award – Jenna Lee

Jenna Lee is an artist and graphic designer living in Melbourne (Naarm), whose highly symbolic work seeks to reclaim agency over the historic representation of Aboriginal people in Australia. Created in response to the 250-year anniversary of Lieutenant James Cook’s arrival, HIStory vessels work with the pages and cover board of the Ladybird History Book ‘The Story Of Captain Cook’, stripping back the pages and breaking them down using steam and heat to form modern-day coolamon (ancestral vessels), literally reclaiming history. 

Telstra Bark Painting Award – Marrnyula Munyngurr

On a single piece of bark Marrynula has created a series of smaller works. In Muṉguymirri (which means ‘in small pieces’), Marrnyula uses the cross-hatching grid pattern which is the sacred design for the freshwaters of the Djapu clan at their homeland.

‘Sitting down and doing like on the small bark first, I changed my work like to do like bigger square ones, those big bark. But it’s about same story – about freshwater, but different way, style. I love painting because I learnt with family and with my dad.’

Telstra Works On Paper Award – Iluwanti Ken

Originally from Watarru, Illuwanti is an artist with Tjala Arts in Amata on APY lands in South Australia, where she has lived with her family since 2003.

Walawulu ngunytju kukaku ananyi (Mother eagles going hunting) tells the story of mother eagles bringing food back to their babies, a subject matter Illuwanti is known for painting. She makes the connection between the eagles and Anangu mothers, and how they can teach women important lessons about survival, protection and shelter.

Left: Yoogu 2020 by Cecilia Umbagai. Right: Cecilia Umbagai, winner of the Telstra Emerging Artist Award. Photo – courtesy of NATSIAA.

Left: Adrian Jangala Robertson, winner of the Telstra General Painting Award. Right: Yalpirakinu 2020 by Adrian Jangala Robertson.

Left: Still from Shinkansen 2019 by Sienna Mayutu Wurmarri Stubb. Right: Sienna Mayutu Wurmarri Stubb, winner of the Telstra Multimedia Award.

Telstra Emerging Artist Award – Cecilia Umbagai

‘I’m a young Worrorra woman and live in Mowanjum community 10km outside of Derby in the West Kimberley of Western Australia’, says Cecilia. ‘The three tribes who live in Mowanjum: Worrorra, Ngarinyin, and Wunumbal share their belief of the Wandjina who are sacred ancestral spiritual beings and created the land and control the elements, the flora and fauna, and the humans. We are custodians of Wandjina Wunggund law. I’ve been painting all my life, learning from the elders, sitting with them while they worked, listening’.

Telstra General Painting Award – Adrian Jangala Robertson

Adrian is a landscape painter based in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) who works with a restricted palette. His work refers to the desert mountains, ridges and trees that are part of his mother’s country, Yalpirakinu.

His winning work, Yalpirakinu, captures the drama, energy and memories of this important place.

Telstra Multimedia Award – Siena Mayutu Wurmarri Stubbs

At just 18 years old, Yolŋu girl Sienna Mayutu Wurmarri Stubbs was the youngest finalist and now winner in this year’s NATSIAA. Her practice is focused on capturing moments and memories realised through the medium of film. Her winning work, Shinkansen, was captured on the bullet train from Nagoya to Kyoto.

‘This artwork was created when I went overseas to Japan. I actually left home three days after my grandma died – and it was a shock. So I guess this video was a response and how I was feeling in this moment, sitting on that bullet train in Japan’, says Siena.

Take a virtual tour of the amazing 2020 NATSIAA finalists exhibition here! 

National Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Awards Exhibition MAGNT Darwin 19 Conacher Street The Gardens, Darwin NT

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Australian Aboriginal Peoples

Australia’s first people—known as Aboriginal Australians—have lived on the continent for over 50,000 years. Today, there are 250 distinct language groups spread throughout Australia. Aboriginal Australians are split into two groups: Aboriginal peoples, who are related to those who already inhabited Australia when Britain began colonizing the island in 1788, and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who descend from residents of the Torres Strait Islands, a group of islands that is part of modern-day Queensland, Australia.

All Aboriginal Australians are related to groups indigenous to Australia. However, the use of the term indigenous is controversial, since it can be claimed by people who descend from people who weren’t the original inhabitants of the island. Legally, “Aboriginal Australian” is recognized as “a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent who identifies as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and is accepted as such by the community in which he [or she] lives.”

Origins

In 2017, a genetic study of the genomes of 111 Aboriginal Australians found that today’s Aboriginal Australians are all related to a common ancestor who was a member of a distinct population that emerged on the mainland about 50,000 years ago. Humans are thought to have migrated to Northern Australia from Asia using primitive boats. A current theory holds that those early migrants themselves came out of Africa about 70,000 years ago, which would make Aboriginal Australians the oldest population of humans living outside Africa.

British settlement

When British settlers began colonizing Australia in 1788, between 750,000 and 1.25 Aboriginal Australians are estimated to have lived there. Soon, epidemics ravaged the island’s indigenous people, and British settlers seized Aboriginal lands.

Though some Aboriginal Australians did resist, up to 20,000 indigenous people died in violent conflict on the colony’s frontiers, most were subjugated by massacres and the impoverishment of their communities as British settlers seized their lands.

The struggle continues

Today, about three percent of Australia’s population has Aboriginal heritage. Aboriginal Australians still struggle to retain their ancient culture and fight for recognition, and restitution, from the Australian government. The state of Victoria is currently working toward a first-of-its-kind treaty with its Aboriginal population that would recognize Aboriginal Australians’ sovereignty and include compensation. However, Australia itself has never made such a treaty, making it the only country in the British Commonwealth not to have ratified a treaty with its First Nations peoples.

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Australia 🇦🇺

Basic facts

Official name: Commonwealth of Australia

Capital city: Canberra

Population: 26.4 million (2023)

Demonym: Australian

Type of government: federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy

Head of state: Charles III (Monarch)

Head of government: Anthony Albanese (Prime Minister)

Gross domestic product (purchasing power parity): $1.79 trillion (2024)

Gini coefficient of wealth inequality: 32.4% (medium) (2020)

Human Development Index: 0.946 (very high) (2022)

Currency: Australian dollar (AUD)

Fun fact: Australia has the largest amount of endemic species.

Etymology

The country’s name is derived from the Latin Terra Australis (“southern land”), the term used for a hypothetical continent in the Southern Hemisphere.

Geography

Australia is located in Oceania and borders the Indian Ocean to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the east. It lies south of Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and Papua New Guinea and northwest of New Zealand.

There are seven main climates: tropical monsoon in the northernmost parts, hot steppe and hot desert in the center, humid subtropical and subtropical highland in the east and southeast, and warm-summer Mediterranean and hot-summer Mediterranean in the southwest. Temperatures range from −5 °C (23 °F) in winter to 35 °C (95 °F) in summer. The average annual temperature is 21.9 °C (71.4 °F).

The country is divided into six states and two self-governing territories. The largest cities in Australia are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth.

History

7th-5th millennium BCE: arrival of Aboriginal Australians

1st millennium BCE: arrival of Torres Strait Islanders

1606 CE: first European landing

1788-1901: Colony of New South Wales

1825-1856: Van Diemen’s Land colony

1856-1901: Colony of Tasmania

1829-1832: Swan River Colony

1832-1901: Colony of Western Australia

1836-1901: Province of South Australia

1851-1901: Colony of Victoria

1859-1901: Colony of Queensland

1850: Australian Colonies Government Act

1851-1854: Eureka Rebellion

1901: Commonwealth of Australia

Economy

Australia mainly imports from China, the United States, and Japan and exports to China, Japan, and South Korea. Its top exports are coal, iron ore, and liquid petroleum gas.

It is rich in natural resources, such as gold, silver, and copper, and a major agricultural exporter. Services represent 79% of the GDP, followed by industry (16%) and agriculture (2%).

Australia is a member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, the Commonwealth, the Five Eyes, the G20, the Pacific Community, and the Pacific Islands Forum.

Demographics

Around 76% of the population is European, while 3% identifies as indigenous. The main religion is Christianity, practiced by 44% of the population, 20% of which is Catholic.

Australia has a positive net migration rate and a fertility rate of 1.6 children per woman. 89% of the population lives in urban areas. Life expectancy is 82.3 years and the median age is 38.8 years. The literacy rate is 99%.

Languages

The de facto official language of the country is English, spoken at home by 72% of the population. The next most common languages are Mandarin Chinese (2.7%), Arabic (1.4%), and Vietnamese (1.3%). Over 250 indigenous languages existed before European contact, but fewer than 20 are still in daily use.

Culture

Australian culture is a blend of indigenous traditions, Anglophone heritage, and multiculturalism. Australians are very familiar and friendly. They embrace irreverence and lack of formality as part of their national identity.

Traditional indigenous clothing includes elements such as feathered headdresses, woven skirts, possum skin, and body paint, while traditional clothes in general include Akubra hats, bush shirts and pants, and Driza-Bone coats.

Architecture

The country’s architecture was strongly influenced by British styles. Houses have corrugated iron roofs, balconies, and verandas. Indigenous houses are normally dome-shaped buildings with stone and clay walls and earth or sod roofs.

Cuisine

The Australian diet is based on dairy products, fish and seafood, meat, pasta, and vegetables. Typical dishes include barramundi (a variety of fish that can be fried, baked, grilled, or barbecued), chicken parmigiana (breaded chicken covered in tomato sauce and cheese), dim sim (dumplings filled with meat and vegetables), pavlova (meringue covered with whipped cream and fruit), and pie floater (a meat pie garnished with tomato sauce and placed upside down and topped with pea and ham soup).

Holidays and festivals

Like other Christian countries, Australia celebrates Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day. It also commemorates New Year’s Day and Labor Day.

Specific Australian holidays include Australia Day on January 26; ANZAC Day on April 25, which commemorates people who served and died in wars, and King’s Birthday, whose date varies regionally.

Other celebrations include Adelaide Fringe, which is the biggest arts festival in the Southern Hemisphere; Floriade, a flower festival, and Parrtjima, an Aboriginal light festival.

Parrtjima

Landmarks

There are twenty UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Australian Convict Sites; the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites; Budj Bim Cultural Landscape; Gondwana Rainforests of Australia; Great Barrier Reef; Greater Blue Mountains Area; Heard and McDonald Islands; K’gari, the world’s largest sand island; Kakadu National Park; Lord Howe Island Group; Macquarie Island; Ningaloo Coast; Purnululu National Park; Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens; Shark Bay; Sydney Opera House; Tasmanian Wilderness; Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park; Wet Tropics of Queensland, and Willandra Lakes Region, which contains fossils.

Great Barrier Reef

Other landmarks include Ballarat, a sheep station that became a bustling mining town when gold was discovered; Bondi Beach; the Bungle Bungle Range; Port Arthur, and the Queen Victoria Building.

Queen Victoria Building

Famous people

Barry Humphries - comedian

Cate Blanchett - actress

Chris Hemsworth - actor

Don Bradman - cricket player

Germaine Greer - writer

Keith Urban - singer

Kylie Minogue - singer

Patty Mills - basketball player

Sam Kerr - soccer player

Stephanie Gilmore - surfer

Barry Humphries

You can find out more about life in Australia in this article and this video.

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Why is the world is silent on Australian Crimes?!

Why is the world is silent on Australian Crimes?!

The crimes committed by colonials against the Australian aboriginals are considered from among the most complicated and the bloodiest genocide crimes committed against human beings. There are a lot of people talking from time to time about the genocide crimes committed by the European colonials against Amerindians in the two American Continents and the crimes committed by Nazis and Zionists against humanity. Yet, no one all over the world talks strongly about the bloody genocide crimes executed against the Australian Aboriginals.

For those who do not know, Australian aboriginals were those people settled in the territories and lands of Australian Continent for thousands of years. They could establish their special cities and civilization isolated from the rest of the world till the European Colonialism reached them after discovering the continent which was actually the moment of their distress.

Those people characterized with a lot of various traits and forms giving their life a special and distinguished feature different from the colonials and their children.

According to the informative observation, Australian aboriginals were the aboriginal people settled in the main Australian land and a lot of islands such as Tasmania Island, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook island, Tiwi Island and Groote Eylandt Island.

Australian aboriginals were composed of a lot of distinguished people living in Australia for more than 50000 Years.

These people had a common genetic history on a large extent, even if it was complicated, but they were identified as one group in the last two hundred years only.

The term (Australian Aboriginals) refers to all Australian aboriginals in addition to populations living in the Islands of Torres Strait.

In past, the Australian aboriginals lived in large parts of the continental cliff and they were isolated in a lot of small maritime islands.

Studies related to the hereditary and genetic formation of Australian aboriginal groups are still under progress. Yet, the proofs indicate that they had genetic hereditary traits inherited from Ancient Asian Peoples.

In addition, some studies indicated that they shared in some similarities with Papua People. Yet, they were isolated from South-East Asia for a long period.

Before committing broad genocide crimes against them, Australian aboriginals were using more than 250 aboriginal languages.

In addition, a lot of them were living in various parts of the world as a part of Australian Diaspora.

Currently, most aboriginal people speak English with adding some phrases and words related the aboriginals adding a special feature and accent to the English Language used among them after having been forced to use it by colonialism.

However, Australian aboriginals suffer from a lot of problems representing in preventing them from health and economic services compared with the rest of Australian Community. Therefore, the historical suffering of the children continues in the same route if suffering of their parents and grandparents.

A hereditary study conducted on Genome 111 of Australian Aboriginals found out that today’s people are related to common predecessors from distinguished population groups appeared in the mainland since nearly 50000 years.

The current theory stated that those early immigrants came by themselves from Africa – i.e. before nearly 70000 years. Such matter makes the Australian aboriginals from among the oldest people living outside Africa.

When British colonials began to colonize Australia in 1788, the number of the aboriginal populations were estimated with 750.000 to 1.250.000 people.

Yet, genocide crimes and oriented epidemics quickly destroyed the island aboriginal populations. Consequently, the British colonials seized and took the territories and lands of the aboriginal people in the largest occupation and killing operation implemented without any punishment till this date.

Although some of the Australian aboriginals resisted as we found out that nearly 20000 people belonging to the aboriginal populations  died due to the violent struggle in facing the colonials, most of them were subjected to slaughters and making the communities whose wealth and resources were taken and seized by the British colonials poor.

During the period from 1910 to 1970, the colonial policies resulted in deporting 10% to 33% from the Australian aboriginal children coercively from their houses. Those (stolen generations) were put in captivation Kindergarten and adoption facilities. They were deprived from speaking with aboriginal languages. Their names were mostly changed as well.

Today, nearly 3% of Australian Population keep the legacy of the aboriginal populations despite the suffering and crimes they face.

Australian aboriginal populations still struggle for keeping and maintaining their ancient culture and struggle to be recognized by – and to get back their rights from – the Australian Government.

Despite colonial delusion and disguising attempts for such historical bloody crimes from which Australian aboriginals suffered, Australia has not officially admitted such victims as the owners of the land till this date. Such matter makes Australia the sole and only country in British Commonwealth which has not sign on a treaty with its aboriginal peoples.