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Aboriginal people have been together for up to 40 000 years. The adults had the chance to teach their children in order to survive. These days, a lot of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students face additional challenges in their journey through and beyond school. Due to their circumstances, they are often less likely to complete Year 12 than other students. There are strong links between higher levels of education and improved employment, income and health.

The work in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities aim to keep children, families and communities engaged in learning by providing positive educational experiences, opportunities to grow life skills and access to role models.

Despite significant progress in recent decades, Aboriginal Australians remain significantly under-represented within the Australian system of higher education. However, Aboriginal enrolment, completion numbers and completion rates vary between universities.

To ensure that Aboriginal students acheive in higher education, a change in institutional structure is needed. Significant resources need to be continuously invested into Aboriginal staffing, course design and Aboriginal support services and initiatives.

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- The dream time has become a way to describe the beliefs, knowledge practises concerning Ancestral beings and the values of Aboriginal life.
- In Aboriginal religious belief, a person's spirit may return in human, animal or plant form after death. So an Ancestral Being may have the appearance of a plant or animal, but have done deeds similar to a human in the past.
- Aboriginal spirituality is inextricably linked to land, “it’s like picking up a piece of dirt and saying this is where I started and this is where I’ll go. The land is our food, our culture, our spirit and identity.”

- Dream time and Dreaming are not the same thing. Dreaming is the environment the Aboriginal people lived in and it still exists today “all around us”. None of the hundreds of Aboriginal languages contains a word for “time”.

- Aboriginal religion had no man made structures for religious ceremonies, the used features of the landscape for their rites and ceremonies, e.g., Uluru
- They believed that when a person died the spirit left the body and travelled to a place like a waterhole to await rebirth. The complex rituals to protect the living from any anger the dead person may have harboured towards the living and to expedite the journey of the spirit to the spirit home, a waterhole, offshore island, to the spirit home.
- They followed a totemic system, each person was associated with an animal or a natural feature of the landscape. Every person has a totem, usually an animal, and those of that totem are responsible for the rites necessary for the continued abundance of that species. The sites for the increase rites of each species is marked by a pile of bones of that species.

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- Aboriginals are mobile groups, therefore, their diet varies

- They do not farm or grow vegetables

- Many tribes lived on the water for the supply of seafood
- Aboriginal food falls into 6 main groups

1. Food from animals
- snakes, emus, lizards, Kangaroos, wallabies, possums, turkeys and anteaters.
2. Food from plants
- passion fruits, bananas, figs, apple, sultanas, plums, tomatoes, oranges, and coconuts.
3. Seeds
- wattle and mulga seeds
4. Insects and grubs
- cicadas, caterpillars, witchetty grub and other tree grubs
5. Honey and nectar
- honey from bees and nectar from flowers
6. Water

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Resources •Coastal tribes used fishbone and desert tribes used stone for tips on weapons. •Knives, spears, boomerangs, clubs and digging sticks were some tools and weapons aboriginals used. •Some spears are six metres in length. •Boomerangs can kill a small animal or knock down a larger animal. •Some baskets and bags are so tightly woven that they can hold liquids. •Bags are made from bush string, cordyline and knotted grass stalks. •Aboriginals use different materials to make bags, baskets and nets. •Aboriginals use nets to catch animals as big as kangaroos to as small as fish. •Aboriginal watercrafts were left to rot when there was no more use for them. •Message sticks were used as a method of communication by carving a shape into a stick to remember the message. 

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Resources •Coastal tribes used fishbone and desert tribes used stone for tips on weapons. •Knives, spears, boomerangs, clubs and digging sticks were some tools and weapons aboriginals used. •Some spears are six metres in length. •Boomerangs can kill a small animal or knock down a larger animal. •Some baskets and bags are so tightly woven that they can hold liquids. •Bags are made from bush string, cordyline and knotted grass stalks. •Aboriginals use different materials to make bags, baskets and nets. •Aboriginals use nets to catch animals as big as kangaroos to as small as fish. •Aboriginal watercrafts were left to rot when there was no more use for them. •Message sticks were used as a method of communication by carving a shape into a stick to remember the message. 

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Aboriginal religion and beliefs are related closely to the environment and the Australian land. 'It's like picking up a piece of dirt and saying this is where I'll go. The land is our food, our culture, our spirit and identity.' https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/spirituality/#axzz4fD6zrsSv

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Aboriginals ate meat, plants, grubs and seafood. Meat included kangaroo, emus, wild turkey, rock wallaby, snakes and lizards and anteaters. The plants included wild orange, wild passion fruit, wild fig, bush tomato, bush banana and bush coconut. They had little impact in the environment hence taking and hunting what they needed and not over hunting or fishing so they kept the environment balanced.

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Aboriginal Food/ Bush Tucker:Meats: include kangaroo, emus, wild turkey, rock wallaby, possums, snakes and lizards and anteaters.Plants: include wild orange, wild passionfruit, wild fig, bush tomato, conkerberry, mistletoe, bush banana and bush coconut, quandongs, pencil yams, mulga apple, bush plums and sultanas.Edible seedsGrubs and insectsHoney and nectorsThey would need to search for Soakages tree roots and hollows to find water in the dry desert conditions.The aboriginal people would combine these foods to create meals that would fill them up. When you read along the lists you will see that most of these foods are reasonably healthy. They couldn't just go down to the local store and buy a packet of chips.

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Aboriginal Food/ Bush Tucker:Meats: include kangaroo, emus, wild turkey, rock wallaby, possums, snakes and lizards and anteaters.Plants: include wild orange, wild passionfruit, wild fig, bush tomato, conkerberry, mistletoe, bush banana and bush coconut, quandongs, pencil yams, mulga apple, bush plums and sultanas.Edible seedsGrubs and insectsHoney and nectorsThey would need to search for Soakages tree roots and hollows to find water in the dry desert conditions.The aboriginal people would combine these foods to create meals that would fill them up. When you read along the lists you will see that most of these foods are reasonably healthy. They couldn't just go down to the local store and buy a packet of chips.

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Aboriginals believed in Dreamtime and dreamtime stories
Aboriginals believed that their ancestral spirits made the earth and everything in it.
The aboriginal culture is 60,000 years old.
Aboriginals believed that the Europeans disturbed their culture.
Dreamtime is the understanding of the world.
Dreamtime is the knowledge of the Aborigines
The Dreaming world was the old time of the Ancestor Beings.

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They collected all natural food that included seeds, honey nectars, plants and fruits. These included:
Kangaroo, emus, wild turkey, rock wallaby, possums, snakes and lizards and anteaters.
Mulga seeds and wattle seeds.
Witchetty grub, cicadas, caterpillars. Other grubs are found in various tree species such as river red gum.
Honey from the native bee, nectar from the flowers of the bloodwood and corkwood trees.

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Food of the Aboriginals

Animals such as witchetty grubs, fish, shellfish, quandong, kutjera, muntries, riberry, Davidson's plum and finger lime are just some of the culinary delights commonly found in Aboriginal communities.

Honey was seen as a much-prized bush food and was often given as gifts.

Common meats were kangaroo, emu, wild turkey, rock wallaby, possums, snakes, lizards and anteaters.

They ate edible seeds including mulga and wattle seeds.

All food was hunted using either a boomerang or a spear which were commonly hand - made using wood.

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Aboriginal spirituality and belief is extremely linked to land, “it’s like picking up a piece of dirt and saying this is where I started and this is where I’ll go. The land is our food, our culture, our spirit and identity.”

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Aboriginal spirituality and belief is extremely linked to land, “it’s like picking up a piece of dirt and saying this is where I started and this is where I’ll go. The land is our food, our culture, our spirit and identity.”

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the aboriginals ate a  number of animals and plants including a bush banananana, awild passionfruit?!?!

they also eat meat (kangaroos, lizards)

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The Aboriginals scavenged and for their wide spread of food. Woman and children would find fruits in the ground and other bush tucker.
The men hunt for soureces of meat like kangaroos and fish

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Bush tucker was a normal food for the Aboriginal people and consisted of many different fruits, nuts

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Much of the food that aboriginals would eat would either be meat or wild plants. Examples of the meat they would eat include: kangaroos, snakes and lizards
Examples of the wild plants they would eat include: wild orange, wild fig and bush tomato

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Women of aboriginal tribes scavenged for things like roots, berries and grubs; while the men of the tribe hunted for animals like large birds, crabs, fish and other large mammals. The tribes would use spears, boomerangs, Nulla Nulla and other objects that were all made from wood. The basic Aboriginal diet included a range of seeds, nuts, berries, fruit, worms and grubs and red meat. The meals Aboriginal people ate was called Bush Tucker, which is now a well known term. Traditionally, bush tucker was eaten with the whole tribe around the fire. There was also occasionally some entertainment provided which included Aboriginal dances.

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Aboriginal people would have to hunt and scavenge for their food. Usually women and children would scavenge for grubs, roots and other fruits and berries while the men in the tribe would hunt for food. The men would hunt for fish, crabs, large mammals and many other animals. They ate the meat, fat, offal, blood and eggs of animals.  Their key animals that the Aboriginal people hunted for were kangaroo's, wallabies, possum and wombat. This makes their diet one of the most healthiest known. It was easy for Aboriginal people to find food as they lived in subtropical areas rather than deserts. The average Aboriginal person has 40% of fruit's and other plants in their diet. Bush tucker was eaten with the tribe as a whole as they all gathered around the fire. They also had lots of buts in their diet.

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