Many Indigenous Australians dislike the terms 'Aborigine' and 'Aboriginal' because these terms have been forced on them. They prefer to use words from their own languages. In some languages of south-east Australia (parts of New South Wales and Victoria ), the words: ''coorie'', ''kory'', ''kuri'', ''kooli'', ''koole'' means 'person' or 'people'. In the 1960s, the form koori came to be used by Indigenous Australians of these areas to mean 'Aboriginal people' or 'Aboriginal person'.
Other terms are used to describe the Indigenous people of other regions within Australia . These include:
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