Aboriginal Terms
Aboriginal Terms
Aboriginal Terms
Collective names used to describe Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Other terms
ATSI
Native
Mixed blood
Half-caste
Quarter-caste
Full-blood
Part-Aboriginal
Them
Them people
Those people
Those folk
You people
them involving them in policy making decisions
involving members of the Aboriginal community
in policy making decisions
those people an invitation inviting those people to attend the
meeting will be sent out on
an invitation inviting members of the Aboriginal
community to attend the meeting will be sent out on
you people if you people need
If the Aboriginal community needs
Clearly, the following terms are also offensive and should never be used:
coloured
primitive
nigger
lubra
gin
abo
coon
boong
savage
jacki jacki
coconut
sooty
darky
blacks
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Terms not to be used
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Additional resources
Additional reading
Goodall H (1996). Invasion to Embassy Land in Aboriginal Politics in NSW, 1770-1972.
Allen & Unwin in association with Black Books. Sydney.
Horton D (1994). Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia Australian Institute of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Canberra.
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (1997). Bringing Them Home Report.
Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Children from their Families.
Parbury N (1986). Survival A History of Aboriginal Life in New South Wales.
Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs NSW. Sydney
Useful websites
www.yarrahealing.melb.catholic.edu.au
www.atsic.gov.au/ News_Room/As a Matter of Fact /default.asp
www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au
Guidelines for non-racist language use in Aboriginal and Australian Studies
Developed by David Hollinsworth
www.nswalc.org.au
for further information regarding Native Title and Land Rights and Aboriginal issues.
www.npws.nsw.gov.au/aboriginal /index.html
www.faira.org.au
www.aiatsis.gov.au
www.dreamtime.net.au/Indigenous
www.daa.nsw.gov.au
www.library.trinity.wa.edu.au/aborigines/terms.htm
References
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1 NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs
(2003), NSW Draft Aboriginal
Languages Policy
2 Horton D (1994). Encyclopaedia of
Aboriginal Australia. Australian
Institute of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Studies. Canberra
3 NSW Department of Aboriginal
Affairs, op.cit.
4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission (1999). As a Matter
of Fact Aboriginal History is not
Australian History. Canberra: 1
5 Parbury N (1986). Survival A History
of Aboriginal Life in New South
Wales. Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs
New South Wales. Sydney
6 ibid: 17
7 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission, op.cit: 9
8 ibid: 10
9 Miller J, quoted in Parbury, op.cit: 11
10 Parbury, op.cit: 87
11 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission, op.cit: 11
12 ibid: 11
13 Australian Bureau of Statistics (2000).
Population Distribution Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Australian
2001. ABS Catalogue Number 4705.0
14 Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983
(NSW): Section 4(1)
15 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission, op.cit: 8
16 ibid: 42
17 NSW Office of the Board of Studies
(1998). New South Wales Aboriginal
Languages Interim Framework K-10.
Board of Studies NSW:10
18 Ibid: 122
19 Department of Lands (1987).
Aboriginal New South Wales
A Pictorial Study Guide.
Department of Lands Bathurst.
20 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission, op.cit: 11
21 ibid: 11
22 NSW Office of the Board of Studies,
op.cit: 30
23 Quoted in Parbury, op.cit: 51
24 Parbury, op.cit: 51
25 ibid: 87
26 ibid: 51
27 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission, op.cit :1
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