Indigenous Australians

Also known as Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, Torres Strait Islanders and Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal peoples

First Nations people of Australia and its islands

AI overview

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Research

5,661 papers

Indigenous Australians with autism: A scoping review.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2020
Indigenous Australians' Experiences of Cancer Care: A Narrative Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
The health of Indigenous Australians.The Medical journal of Australia · 2017
Improving prescribing for Indigenous Australians.The Medical journal of Australia · 2019
Prion disease in Indigenous Australians.Internal medicine journal · 2021

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Encyclopedic overview

Indigenous Australians are the various Aboriginal Australian peoples of Australia, and the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. The terms Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, First Nations of Australia, First Peoples of Australia, and First Australians are also common. Many Indigenous Australians prefer to identify with their specific cultural group.

Estimates from the 2021 Australian census show that there were almost one million Indigenous Australians, representing 3.8% of the Australian population. About 92% of Indigenous Australians identified as Aboriginal, 4% identified as Torres Strait Islander and 4% identified with both groups. About 84% spoke English at home and 9% spoke an Aboriginal or Torres Strait language at home. Just over half hold secular or other spiritual beliefs or no religious affiliation; about 40% are Christian; and about 1% adhere to a traditional Aboriginal religion.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Indigenous Australians” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.