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Are most Aboriginal Australians mixed race today?

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There is no direct answer to your question as statistically you can only capture how someone identifies, and that will be either “Aboriginal” or “Non-Aboriginal”. read more

Maybe hybrid culture might work. So for Aboriginal people or Torres Strait Islander the pride in identifying as Indigenous is based on politics, culture handed down from ancestors, and identity defined by social norms. read more

Aboriginal Australians: Aboriginal Australians are legally defined as people who are members "of the Aboriginal race of Australia" (indigenous to the Australian continent—mainland Australia or to the island of Tasmania). read more

Up to the 1970s, thousands of mixed-race children were stolen from their mothers by welfare officials. The children were given to institutions as cheap or slave labour; many were abused. Described by a chief protector of Aborigines as "breeding out the colour", the policy was known as assimilation. read more

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