High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Australian Aborigines (pronounced /æb r d ni/ ( listen), aka Aboriginal Australians) are a class of people who are identified by Australian law as being members of a race indigenous to the Australian continent. In the High Court of Australia, Australian Aborigines have been specifically identified as a group of people who share, in common, biological ancestry back to the original occupants of the continent.