''Blackfella'' (also ''blackfellah'', ''blackfulla'', ''black fella'', or ''black fellah'') is an informal term in
Australian English
Australian English (AusE, AusEng, AuE, AuEng, en-AU) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Australia. It is the country's common language and ''de facto'' national language; while Australia has no official language, Engli ...
to refer to
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...
, in particular
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands ...
, most commonly among themselves.
Similarly, the term ''Whitefella'', especially in Aboriginal use, refers to non-Aboriginal or
European Australians
European Australians are citizens or residents of Australia whose ancestry originates from the peoples of Europe. They form the largest panethnic group in the country. At the 2021 census, the number of ancestry responses categorised within Eu ...
.
See also
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Blackfella/Whitefella
"Blackfella/Whitefella" is an Australian rock song written by Neil Murray and George Rrurrambu, recorded by their Aboriginal rock group, Warumpi Band, and released as the second single from their 1985 album, ''Big Name, No Blankets'' on Parole ...
", a song by
Warumpi Band
Warumpi Band () were an Australian country and Aboriginal rock group which formed in the outback settlement of Papunya, Northern Territory, in 1980. The original line-up was George Burarrwanga on vocals and didgeridoo, Gordon Butcher Tjapanang ...
, co-written by singer
George Rrurrambu
George Rrurrambu Burarrwanga (1957 – 10 June 2007), known in life as George Rrurrambu and George Djilangya, was known as the frontman of Warumpi Band, an Aboriginal rock band.
Burarrwanga was a Yolngu man, born in the remote homeland of Mat ...
and guitarist
Neil Murray.
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Blackfella Films
Blackfella Films is a Sydney-based documentary and narrative production company, founded in 1992 by Rachel Perkins. The company produces distinctive Australian short and feature-length content for film and television with a particular focus on A ...
, a film production company founded and run by
Rachel Perkins
Rachel Perkins (born 1970) is an Australian film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. She directed the films ''Radiance'' (1998), ''One Night the Moon'' (2001), ''Bran Nue Dae'' (2010), and ''Jasper Jones'' (2017). Perkins is an ...
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Blackfellas
''Blackfellas'' is a 1993 Australian drama film directed by James Ricketson and starring John Moore, David Ngoombujarra, Jack Charles, John Hargreaves and Ernie Dingo. It is an adaptation of Archie Weller's 1981 novel ''The Day of the Dog''. ...
'', 1993 film adaptation of
Archie Weller
Archie Weller (born 13 July 1957) is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and screen plays.
Early life
Archie Weller was born in Subiaco, Western Australia, and grew up on a farm, ''Wonnenup'', near Cranbrook in the Great Southern r ...
's 1981 novel ''The Day of the Dog''
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Koori
Koori (also spelt koorie, goori or goorie) is a demonym for Aboriginal Australians from a region that approximately corresponds to southern New South Wales and Victoria. The word derives from the Indigenous language Awabakal. For some people an ...
, demonym used by Aboriginal people in
Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
and
New South Wales
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, map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates:
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, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, es ...
*
List of Australian Aboriginal group names
This list of Australian Aboriginal group names includes names and collective designations which have been applied, either currently or in the past, to groups of Aboriginal Australians. The list does not include Torres Strait Islander peoples, wh ...
*
Black Australians (disambiguation) Black Australians most often refers to:
*Indigenous Australians, a term which includes
**Aboriginal Australians
**Torres Strait Islanders
Black Australians may also refer to:
* African Australians
** People from specific African countries
* Af ...
References
External links
''Blackfella, Whitefella'' film
Australian Aboriginal culture
Australian English
Australian slang
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