Settlement Guide: First Australian Peoples

Constitutional recognition for Australia's first peoples

Constitutional recognition for Australia's first peoples Source: ABC Australia

The first peoples in Australia are considered the oldest civilization in the world for about 50,000 years according to a recent genetic study by an international team of scholars.


Indigenous Australians are descendants of Aboriginal and Torres Islanders, accounting for about 3.3 percent of the Australian population by 2016.


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