...which are a component of being a part of the aboriginal culture, a culture comprised by those peoples who were present in Australia at the time of the continents first contact with European cultures. Aboriginality encompasses not only such facets of aboriginal culture as race and language but also such facets as dress, housing, foods, and lifeways in general. Aboriginality, however, is a term which in itself has been defined not only by the Aboriginal peoples themselves but by those cultures who invaded Australian shores and ultimately came to dominate the land and the people. That culture, of course, is predominated by peoples of English origin, a development which is attributable to the British invasion of Australia on 26 January 1788. The problem which is inherent in an English definition of aboriginality is that such definitions typically fail to take into account the fact that aboriginal culture, like all cultures, is an ever-evolving phenomena. n equally important problem results in that the definition of the term aboriginality tends to continually evolve in accordance with the degree of economic...