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Indigenous Australian music is unique, as it dates back more than 60, 000 years to the prehistory of Australia and continues the ancient songlines through contemporary artists as diverse as: David Dahwurr Hudson, Jimmy Little, Warumpi Band, Yothu Yindi, Tiddas, Wild Water, Christine Anu, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Saltwater Band, Nabarlek, Nokturnl, the Pigram Brothers, Coloured Stone, Blekbala Mujik, Kev Carmody, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter.
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Celebrated on this day as it was the practice of prior Australian governments to list 4 August as the birthday of any Indigenous Australian without a listed birth date.
He also took Bennelong and his friend Yemmerrawanyea, another young Indigenous Australian who, unlike Bennelong, would succumb to English weather and disease and not live to make the journey home.
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* 2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
* 1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
On Boxing Day 1866 an Indigenous Australian cricket team played at the MCG with 11, 000 spectators against an MCC team.
However, the Indigenous Australian languages are almost completely devoid of fricatives of any kind.
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Indigenous issues feature prominently in politically inspired Australian music and include the topics of land rights, and aboriginal deaths in custody.
In addition to Indigenous issues, many Australian protest singers have sung about the futility of war.
* Bob Randall, Indigenous Australian of the Year.
* May 1 – At least 800 Indigenous Australian pastoral workers walk off the job in Northwest Western Australia, starting one of the longest industrial strikes in Australia.
* June 11 – Neville Bonner becomes the first Indigenous Australian to sit in the Australian Parliament.
** The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90 % support, removing, from the Australian Constitution, 2 discriminatory sentences referring to Indigenous Australians.
* June 2 – Indigenous Australian Pemulwuy, a leader of the resistance to European settlement of Australia, is shot dead by Henry Hacking.
* Australian Aboriginal English refers to the various varieties of the English language used by Indigenous Australians.
As the crisis unfolded, national opinion swung behind the Aboriginal people involved, and the first appeal on behalf of an Indigenous Australian to the High Court of Australia was launched.
Indigenous Australians have occupied the lands of Australia for some 40, 000 – 60, 000 years, during which time they developed a unique hunter gatherer diet, known as " bush tucker ", drawn from regional Australian flora and fauna — such as the kangaroo.
* Bush Mechanics, a 2001 television documentary featuring an Indigenous Australian take on motor mechanics
Bennelong was the first Australian Indigenous person to be honoured in the name of an electoral division.
The dingo also has different names in the multitude of different Indigenous Australian languages.
The park was added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2004 as part of the Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape-Mount Eccles Lake Condah Area for its importance in Indigenous history and its geology.
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The Taboo belief is particularly strong among many Indigenous groups in the South East of Australia, where it is forbidden and considered " cultural theft " for non-Indigenous women, and especially performers of New Age music regardless of gender, to play or even touch a didgeridoo.
The music of Australia Encyclopedia is the music produced in the area of, on the subject of, or by the people of modern Australia, including its preceding Indigenous and colonial societies.
Indigenous Australian music is a part of the unique heritage of a 40, 000 – 60, 000 year history which produced the iconic didgeridoo.
Contemporary fusions of Indigenous and Western styles ( exemplified in the works of Yothu Yindi, Christine Anu and Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu ) mark distinctly Australian contributions to world music.
Indigenous Australian music refers to the music of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
Traditional Indigenous music is best characterised by the didgeridoo, the best-known instrument, which is considered by some to be the world's oldest.
Contemporary Indigenous Australian music has covered numerous styles, including rock and roll, country, hip hop, and reggae.
Despite the popularity of some of his work, Little failed to launch Indigenous music in the country — from the 1970s onwards, groups such as Coloured Stone, Warumpi Band, and No Fixed Address would help improve the image of the genre.
It would be Yothu Yindi that would bring Indigenous music to the mainstream, with their 1991 song " Treaty ", from the album Tribal Voice, becoming a hit.
Indigenous Australian music and Australian jazz have also had cross-over influence on this genre.
Conflict and reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians has been a source of much art and literature in Australia, and ancient Aboriginal artistic styles and iconic inventions such as the boomerang, the didgeridoo and Indigenous Australian music have become symbols of modern Australia.
Indigenous performers like didgeridoo player William Barton and immigrant musicians like Egyptian-born oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros have stimulated interest in their own music traditions and have also collaborated with other musicians and ensembles both in Australia and internationally.
Although protocol differs among the Indigenous nations, the potlatch will usually involve a feast, with music, dance, theatricality and spiritual ceremonies.
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The first Aboriginal winner was boxer Lionel Rose, who quipped: ‘ One hundred and eighty-two years ago one of my mob would have been a dead cert ’ for this .’ Since then a further seven Indigenous people have been named Australian of the Year, for achievements in sport, music, politics, law, public service and academia.
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Australian indigenous music includes the music of Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, who are collectively called Indigenous Australians ; it incorporates a variety of distinctive traditional music styles practiced by Indigenous Australian peoples, as well as a range of contemporary musical styles of and fusion with European traditions as interpreted and performed by indigenous Australian artists.
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