Australian Aborigine prevod sa engleskog na srpski

Any of the 500 groups of indigenous inhabitants of the continent of Australia, who migrated to this region from S Asia about 40,000 years ago. They are dark-skinned Caucasoids, with fair hair in childhood and heavy dark beards and body hair in adult males. They were hunters and gatherers, living throughout the continent in small kin-based groups before European settlement. Several hundred different languages developed, including Aranda (Arunta), spoken in central Australia, and Murngin, spoken in Arnhem Land. In recent years a movement for the recognition of Aborigine rights has begun, with campaigns against racial discrimination in housing, education, wages, and medical facilities.
Under an “assimilation” policy in force 1918–53, thousands of Aborigine children, known as the “stolen generation”, were removed from their homes in Northern Territory and either given to white families or sent to orphanages.
In March 1995, the Australian Senate dropped its opposition to the controversial Aboriginal Land Fund Bill, created to establish a fund enabling Aborigines to purchase land and housing. It was intended to supplement the 1993 Native Title Act, aimed at protecting land claims where indiginous people could prove continuing association—applicable to only a small minority of Aborigines.
Aborigines make up about 1.5% of Australia's population of 16 million. They live in reserves as well as among the general population. The unemployment rate among Aborigines is three times the national average, and their average income is about half (1995). They have an infant mortality three times the national average, a suicide rate six times higher, and an adult life expectancy 15 years below the average 76 years of other Australians.