1Inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists; indigenous.

1. 1.1Relating to the indigenous peoples of Australia or their languages.
   ‘Then, I realised the guests were not Indians, but rather Aboriginal Australians.’
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   • ‘Alice Moyle was present at the births of the new discipline of ethnomusicology and the new field of Australian Aboriginal music.’
   • ‘A quiet, deep pathos surrounds the story of each Aboriginal language in its individual encounter with the modern world.’
   • ‘Why should Aboriginal Australians be in a lesser position in respect of proprietorial rights than other Australians?’
   • ‘Her paintings and drawings offer a glimpse into the world view of an Aboriginal Australian who has emerged with a positive vision of the future for all people.’
   • ‘In his book A Place for Strangers, Tony Swain argued that Australian Aboriginal peoples did not fit this model.’
   • ‘Another proud first for Lismore this year was the raising of the Aboriginal flag beside the Australian flag’
   • ‘My fourth-graders started by studying the work of the Australian Aboriginal artists.’
   • ‘Tasmania has a higher percentage of its population identifying as Aboriginal than any other Australian state.’
   • ‘It has been eradicated in most parts of the world, but is still occurring in Australian Aboriginal communities.’
   • ‘It saluted Aboriginal culture, the Australian landscape and the country's rural traditions.’
   • ‘Students across NSW will be able to study an Aboriginal language under changes to the state curriculum.’
   • ‘I refer, of course, to the place of the Aboriginal population in Australian national identity.’
   • ‘Some linguists predict that if nothing is done, almost all Aboriginal languages will be dead within the next decade.’
   • ‘It's from there that we have the word kangaroo which reflects the local Aboriginal language of that place.’
   • ‘She puts her support in large part down to her capacity to speak in Aboriginal language.’
   • ‘And much of this politics and conflict has involved the replacement of European names with Aboriginal ones.’
   • ‘He's troubled by the apparent influence of black American culture on Aboriginal kids.’
   • ‘Its postwar collection is solid in nonindigenous Australian art and truly first rate in Aboriginal work.’
   • ‘There has been a damning indictment of living conditions at a remote Aboriginal community by the West Australian coroner.’

1An aboriginal inhabitant of a place.

1. 1.1A person belonging to one of the indigenous peoples of Australia.
   ‘When Australia's Aboriginals soaked Morton Bay chestnuts to make them edible, they were washing out a poison, castanospermine, that is today used to attack viruses.’
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   • ‘He started off as a young camel boy with Bill Wade, going into the centre of Australia counting Aboriginals to see how many lived out there.’
   • ‘Most Australians agreed that a preamble to the Australian constitution must contain some recognition that Aboriginals were in Australia before the white man.’
   • ‘We were in Adelaide, Australia, and Aboriginals wanted Victoria Square to be dual-named.’
   • ‘In my view, they were the people who led the change of history in Australia, towards Aboriginals being able to vote and have rights.’
   • ‘Long ago, in a time the Aboriginals of Australia called Dreamtime, many things were waiting to be born.’
   • ‘No one ever said that coming to terms with what white Australia did to Aboriginals would be easy.’
   • ‘Because the common law has failed to protect the rights of Aboriginals the bill of rights for Australia should be promoted.’
   • ‘I was brought up in the Northern Territory with Aboriginals, and many of my closest friends are indigenous.’
   • ‘The mining town of Coober Pedy in Australia got its name from the local Aboriginals.’
   • ‘With its location in the Far North of Australia, soldiers posted here need to know how to effectively communicate with Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders.’
   • ‘Even today the journey across the continent isn't easy, as Alice Thompson found when tracing her ancestors for her book, The Singing Line, the name the Aboriginals gave to the telegraph.’
   • ‘But that promise has come to naught, amid recriminations about his refusal to make a formal apology for the treatment meted out to Aboriginals by generations of white Australians.’
   • ‘The only platypuses he came across were delivered to him by the Aboriginals and they decomposed in the heat before he could get them back to his dissecting bench aboard Challenger.’
   • ‘This results in Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders developing negative self-concepts and a growing sense of a separate identity.’
   • ‘And the following day Cobblers Cove is filled from end to end with tanned Sydneysiders, wearing as few clothes as the Aboriginals when Captain Cook first sailed in.’