Our indigenous people, the aboriginals, have lived on the continent of Australia for 40,000 years. Their culture and spirit is a proud part of Australia - both in history and modern society... Dream Time Village will feature Australian Aboriginal & Indigenous cultures including education, art & music. Our main showcase will be indigenous workshops that will be offered throughout the festival: - Learn About The Oldest Known Culture in the World...
- Follow Indigenous News thru our Australian Newsfeed...
- Contemporary Australian Aboriginal & Indigenous Music & Art...
|  |  | |  Australia is a multicultural society, consisting of people from all around the world. Australia has always had a mix of cultures and people although not in the same way as it does today. Like all cultures Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures have changed and developed over time. But colonisation of Australia brought rapid changes to Aboriginal society and dramatically affected Aboriginal land and they ways people lived.
Before 1788 Australia was populated only by the Indigenous people of Australia - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. In 1788 Aboriginal people inhabited the whole of Australia and Torres Strait Islanders lived on the islands between Australian and Papua New Guinea, in what is now called the Torres Strait. There were many different Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities made up of people who spoke different languages with various cultural beliefs, practices and traditions.
 Before 1788 there were approximately 700 languages spoken throughout Australia with an estimated population of 750 000 people. Today Indigenous people make up 2% of the entire Australian population (about 410 000 people). The number of Aboriginal people has changed since European settlement because of the effects of removal of people from traditional lands and the impact of cities and towns on populations. About Indigenous Australia
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