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Australian Aborigines Aboriginal Australians are a class of peoples who are identified by Australian law as being members of a race indigenous to the Australian continent. In the High Court of Australia, Australian Aborigines have been specifically identified as a class of people who share, in common, biological ancestry back to the original occupants of this continent. Eve Fesl, an Aboriginal Australian from the Gabi Gabi people, published in the Aboriginal Law Bulletin describing how she and other Australian Aborigines preferred to be identified: "The word 'aborigine' refers to an indigenous person of any country. If it is to be used to refer to us as a specific group of people, it should be spelt with a capital 'A', 'Aborigine'..." More recently, Lowitja O'Donoghue AC, CBE, commenting on the prospect of possible amendments to Australia's constitution, is quoted in an article entitled 'Call us Aboriginal' as saying: "I really can't tell you of a time when 'indigenous' became current, but I personally have an objection to it, and so do many other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander This has just really crept up on us ... like thieves in the night." "We're very happy with our involvement with indigenous people around the world, on the international forum ... because they're our brothers and we do object to it being used here in Australia." Dean of Indigenous Research and Education at Charles Darwin University, Professor MaryAnn Bin-Sallik, has publicly lectured on the ways Australian Aborigines have been categorised and labelled over time: "Professor Bin-Sallik’s lecture offered a new perspective on the terms “urban” and “traditional” and “of Indigenous descent” as used to define and categorise Aboriginal Australians." “Not only are these categories inappropriate, they serve to divide us,” Professor Bin-Sallik said. “Government’s insistence on categorising us with modern words like ‘urban’, ‘traditional
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