This connection was first formally made by Dr George Bennett of the Australian Museum in 1871, but in the early 1990s, palaeontologist Pat Vickers-Rich and geologist Neil Archbold also cautiously suggested that Aboriginal legends " perhaps had stemmed from an acquaintance with prehistoric bones or even living prehistoric animals themselves ...

The Aboriginal people of the Larrakia language group were the first inhabitants of the greater Darwin area.

* 1971 – The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.

Aboriginal tribes developed rituals around sugar-making, celebrating the Sugar Moon ( the first full moon of spring ) with a Maple Dance.

Her first, My Place, involves her quest to uncover her Aboriginal heritage which had previously been denied by her family, who insisted " as a survival mechanism " that they were of Indian extraction.

Twain's first break finally came on February 8, 1987, when Bell staged a fundraiser for the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto where Twain performed with Broadway star Bernadette Peters, jazz guitarist Don Ross, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

It was first recorded in January 1798 when John Price and James Wilson, a white man who had adopted Aboriginal ways, visited the area of what is now Bargo, New South Wales.

** Sir Douglas Nicholls appointed 28th Governor of South Australia, the first Australian Aboriginal appointed to vice-regal office.

Aboriginal Australians are believed to have first arrived on the Australian mainland by boat from the Indonesian archipelago between 40, 000 to 60, 000 years ago.

Colonial churchmen such as Sydney's first Catholic archbishop, John Bede Polding strongly advocated for Aboriginal rights and dignity and prominent Aboriginal activist Noel Pearson ( born 1965 ), who was raised at a Lutheran mission in Cape York, has written that Christian missions throughout Australia's colonial history " provided a haven from the hell of life on the Australian frontier while at the same time facilitating colonisation ".

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.

Their first languages would have been Aboriginal ( Cree language, Saulteaux language, Assiniboine language, etc.

On 27 January 1972 the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was first established on the grounds of Parliament House ; it was created to draw attention to indigenous rights and land issues and has been continuously occupied since 1992.

The first mob of bullocks to attempt to use the stock route set out in January 1911 ; however the party of three drovers, George Shoesmith, James Thompson and an Aboriginal stockman who was known as ' Chinaman ', were killed by Aborigines at Well 37.

Woollarawarre Bennelong ( c. 1764 – 3 January 1813 ) ( also: " Baneelon ") was a senior man of the Eora, an Aboriginal ( Koori ) people of the Port Jackson area, at the time of the first British settlement in Australia, in 1788.

They also clashed with the Wathaurung people near Corio Bay, killing their leader – the first Aboriginal known to have been killed by settlers in Victoria.

Freeman was the first ever Aboriginal Commonwealth Games gold medalist at age 16 in 1990.

The team won the gold medal, making Freeman the first ever Aboriginal Commonwealth Games gold medallist, as well as one of the youngest, at 16 years old.

Freeman won the Olympic title in a time of 49. 13 seconds, becoming only the second Australian Aboriginal Olympic champion ( the first was Freeman's 4x400 teammate Nova Peris-Kneebone who won for field hockey 4 years earlier in Atlanta ).

Jimmy Little is regarded as the first Aboriginal performer to achieve mainstream success, with his debut 1964 song " The Royal Telephone " highly popular and successful.

Chauvel directed a number of successful Australian films, including 1944's World War II classic The Rats of Tobruk which starred Peter Finch and Chips Rafferty and 1955's Jedda, which was notable for being the first Australian film to be shot in colour, and the first to feature Aboriginal actors in lead roles and to be entered at the Cannes Film Festival.

The many Aboriginal versions of this ' Captain Cook ' are rarely oral recollections of encounters with the Lieutenant James Cook who first navigated and mapped Australia's east coast on the HM Bark Endeavour in 1770.

The Kondole was the first whale according to Aboriginal myth.

In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.

He had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier ; this made him the first Academy Award winner in history.

Ajax at first gets the better of the encounter, wounding Hector with his spear and knocking him down with a large stone, but Hector fights on until the heralds, acting at the direction of Zeus, call a draw: the action ends without a winner and with the two combatants exchanging gifts, Ajax giving Hector a purple sash and Hector giving Ajax a sharp sword.

Very first Herbrand Award winner ( 1992 )

The winner of the wild card has won the first round 7 out of the 11 years since the re-alignment and creation of the NLDS.

the winner in a singles game is the first player to score 21 shots.

The first such vote occurred in 1995 with Vic Volcano emerging as the winner.

This, of course, gave great prestige to the Chinese version and in the first four years of play only one winner has emerged out of China.

Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.

The season ended with a 77 – 67 record, good for second place in the West division and the club's first playoff appearance as the Wild Card winner.

In 1963, Sandy Koufax became the first pitcher to win the award in a unanimous vote ; two years later he became the first multiple winner.

Earnhardt also became the first repeat winner of the annual all-star race, The Winston.

The winner is the first player to complete their wonder, or the first player to have 10 victory points and have more parts of their wonder complete than any other player.

The first winner for Best Film was Until We Meet Again by Tadashi Imai.

The first winner for Best Film was The Inugamis by Kon Ichikawa.

The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").

In the words of Nobel Prize winner Robert E. Lucas, Jr., " For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of ordinary people have begun to undergo sustained growth ...

The winner is the first player to get an unbroken row of five stones horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

In addition to other attractive prizes awarded to the top 3 winners in each division, the first place winner of the Adult Division is invited to perform on the main stage of the Bean Blossom Blues Fest later that evening in front of a crowd of several thousand.

In the words of Nobel Prize winner Robert E. Lucas, Jr., " For the first time in history, the living standards of the masses of ordinary people have begun to undergo sustained growth ...

The tournament finished with a three-way tie for first with the winner, Kramnik being decided by Elo over Mamedyarov and Kamsky.

* 1893 – Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Victoria Cross winner ( d. 1932 )