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As late as 1978, Senator Bonner made an appeal to have
established a single form for the naming of his people. The
plea is all the more poignant in that the naming he asked for was
not in accordance with any Aboriginal tradition but in accordance
with the usage of the Concise Oxford Dictionary.
Senator Bonner made the following plea to Parliament:
In an effort to establish an Australian and
international racial identity for the indigenous
persons of mainland Australia and Tasmania, I
ask the Ministry to refer to such people by using
the words ’Aborigine’ for the singular noun and
’Aborigines’ for the plural noun as contained in
the Concise Oxford Dictionary 1976, sixth edition,
and for the word Aborigine to have a capital A.
To set an example for the Style Manual, I ask the
Minister to make this change from the use of the
noun ’Aboriginal’ so that we, the Aborigines, will
not be referred to in the same manner as indigenous
persons of other nations. I believe it is only in
this way that the Aborigines of Australia can truly
feel unique, as we are, and gain an identity of our
own (Bonner, Weekly Hansard, Senate, 12/14 Oct. 1978,
'14, 601).
The people at Strelley name themselves. They are the marrngu,
mankind. They name those with Aboriginal ancestry, but who live
in the style of Europeans, marta marta, a name which locates the
latter outside tradition-oriented life.
Both the people of Adelaide and the people of Pt. Augusta have
accepted the ’naming’ of mainstream society.
However, while many of the people of Pt. Augusta locate themselves
in traditional groups, and speak of themselves as Kokatha people, or
Andmajantha people etc., the people of Adelaide locate themselves in
a place, Point Pearce or Point McLeay which, in fact, is a place
of white construction.
In a self-conscious effort to locate themselves in an Aboriginal
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world, in Adelaide Aboriginal names are used for various Aboriginal
publications;