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Indigenous Australian

British  

noun

  1. another name for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander See Aboriginal

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Nathan Appo, the first Indigenous Australian to be on the global board of Movember, said Harry was using his platform to "promote and empower people around the world and do the right things".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was confident and composed when she appeared at Australia’s National Press Club to explain why she, a rising political star who is an Indigenous Australian, opposed a referendum to expand Indigenous rights.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2023

Brisbane also seeks inspiration from the 2000 Sydney Olympics that was a stage for Cathy Freeman, who lit the cauldron and then ran to 400-meter gold, who has Indigenous Australian family roots.

From Washington Times • Jun. 28, 2023

Mr. Roach was part of the “Stolen Generations,” the tens of thousands of Indigenous Australian children who were forcibly removed from their homes under government assimilation policies that lasted into the 1970s.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2022

The second, which came out in 2016, held 16,000, including words borrowed from more than 100 Indigenous Australian languages — billabong, kangaroo and yabby, to name a few.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2022

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