@RBradley1980; the website below also presents a lot of factual material but with a rather different perspective to that you provided:
"... If you were to define your Aboriginality you could answer these three questions as follows [7]:
Descent: "I am a descendant of the Ngunnawal Nation from the South Slopes and Southern Tablelands of NSW".
Identification: "I am an Aboriginal person and a proud descendent of the Biripi people of Taree and I proudly identify as an Aboriginal person".
Community: "I am known as an Aboriginal person within the Aboriginal community of Yass, where my father was born and in the Chippendale/Redfern areas of Sydney where I grew up and in Earlwood where I now live". …"
"... Problem: No standard for recognising Aboriginality
Several problems impede recognition of Aboriginality:
Organisations do not recognise each other's paperwork.
There appears to be a lack of consistency between agencies (some have accepted statutory declarations).
There is no governing body regarding Aboriginality. It is left up to the individual organisations to interpret government rules.
No national register or directory of Aboriginal people exists. …"
"... Hundreds of massacres left thousands of Aboriginal people dead, a history many Australians struggle to accept. A brave few started documenting what happened. …"
