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Strengths of australian aboriginal cultural practices in family life and child rearing 3 the paper begins with an exploration of how family is defined in non indigenous and aboriginal contexts. Aboriginal australians still struggle to retain their ancient culture and fight for recognitionand restitutionfrom the australian government. Popular aboriginal dreamtime stories welcome to country. Past and present article pdf available january 2001 with 11,339 reads. Music, law and culture in aboriginal australia in tribal aboriginal society, song is an intricate part of the ritual relationship of the people to the.
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