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Culture Corner Australia Aborigines - the Native Australians Area: 7.686 million sq km Population: 21.4 million (2008) Capital: Canberra Official language: English Currency: Australian dollar How much do you know about Australia? Map of Australia Animals found in Australia wombat platypus dingo Who are these people? Aborigines Aborigines Factfile Total population 517,000 2.6% of Australia’s population Regions with significant populations Northern Territory 32.5% Western Australia 4.0% Queensland 3.6% New South Wales 2.5% ? South Australia 2.3% Victoria 1.0% Background knowledge Regions with significant populations 32.5% 4.0% 3.6% 2.5% 2.3% 1.0% Australian Aborigines are a class of people 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 group of people who share, in common, biological ancestry back to the original occupants of the continent. 1. What do you know about Australian Aborigines? In pairs, decide if these statements are true (T) or false (F). Then read the text and check your answers. They originally came from India. They were farmers. There is no written Aboriginal language. Facts about the native Australians True of false? 4. Europeans destroyed their traditional way of life. 5. No Aboriginal art or artefacts survive. 1.They originally came from India. 2. They were farmers. F F They came from Indonesia 50,000 years ago. They were nomads. 3. There is no written Aboriginal language. 4. Europeans destroyed their traditional way of life. T T There was no written Aboriginal language… The arrive of white people gradually brought an end to the traditional Aboriginal way of life. 5. No Aboriginal art or artefacts survive. F Rock paintings showing this creation period can be found all over the c