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The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is an independent Australian Government statutory authority. It is Australia's premier institution for information about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It is located on Acton Peninsula in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. This article describes the national government of Australia. ... Australian Aborigines are the main indigenous people of Australia. ... Torres Strait Islanders are the indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands, part of Queensland, Australia. ... Canberra is the capital of the Commonwealth of Australia and, with a population of just over 323,000, is also Australias largest inland city. ... Motto: Pro Rege, Lege et Grege (For the Queen, the Law and the People) Nickname: (none) Other Australian states and territories Capital Canberra Government Administrator Chief Minister Const. ...
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) started with an interim Council started in 1961 and was established under an Act of Parliament in 1964. 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
It had a twenty-two member Council and a foundation membership of one hundred and its work increased cross disciplinary interaction leading to 'Aboriginal studies' beginning.
The AIAS Act was replaced by the AIATSIS Act in 1989. The new Act also created a Research Advisory Committee and reduced the size of the Council to nine members, four of whom are elected while five are appointed.
Council
There is a Council of nine members, four elected by the Institute's membership and five members, who are Aboriginal persons or Torres Strait Islanders appointed by the Minister.
Current AIATSIS Council members are:
Professor Michael (Mick) Dodson, AM - Chairperson
Emer. Professor Robert Tonkinson - Deputy Chairperson
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Aboriginal audiences were impressed by the flair and professionalism of the Native Americans, and by their slick presentations.
Aboriginal activists are also on record as saying that their people were not able to consume large quantities of alcohol because white man's food was inadequate in nutritional value (House of Representatives 1976-1977:2847).
Aborigines probably landed on Cape York, in northern Australia, between - and this is hotly contested at present - 24,000 and 60,000 years ago, forming about 500 tribes with different languages and customs, and numbering between 250,000 and 750,000 at the time of the British arrival, or invasion, in 1788 [8].
Aboriginal death, followed by the "hunting propensities" of the settlers and the poisoning of flour issued as rations.
The National Inquiry into the "separation" of Aboriginal and TorresStraitIslander children from their families, published in 1997, summarises the situation: "we can conclude with confidence that between one in three and one in ten indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families and communities in the period from approximately 1910 until 1970" [51].
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