Right, but that doesn't really fall under PC speech.
What about following areas:
- identity politics: are there any new PC terms for Aboriginals? Or perhaps reclamation of previously offensive terms? (Think the N-word and its usage by blacks in the US)
- renaming: does the effort to name places according to their aboriginal names continue, or it ended with the Eyers rock/Uluru?
- history revisions: is there an ongoing campaign to change the way people think about national holidays (so, Invasion day?)
- immigration: any new PC/un-PC terms for various immigrant groups? Lebanese, 'Asians', etc.?
- race: how kosher is it to refer to racial traits as sources of difference? Is there any effort at introducing new 'euphemisms' or other forms of indirect language to refer to those?
- religion: ditto
And I want to stress I am genuinely interested; for me Australia is a pretty exotic territory in this respect. I would like some pointers to further research.
Why not? It's a political attempt to change thought by using language. Is it not political correctness when the right does it?
At any rate:
Most generally, the preffered term for all Australian indigenous peoples is probably Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Aborigine I guess is the noun, Aboriginal the adjective. Indigenous is probably more a description placing Aboriginal people in a global context than anything preferred locally. Much more informally you'll see blackfella and whitefella used a fair bit in casual speech, though as a white person it's probably not recommended to use it with an unfamiliar audience.
More specific terms from local language groups are used somewhat frequently in specific areas (eg Koori around where I grew up in southern New South Wales, Yolngu in Arnhem Land). The
Koori Mail for example is a nationally distributed paper but uses Koori as it was founded and is run in northern NSW.
More specifically still, a welcome to country ceremony or acknowledgment of the traditional owners naturally refer to the specific traditional owners of that area (Canberra is Ngunnawal country, we acknowledged the Gadigal people of the Eora nation at my uni in Sydney).
This probably sheds some light:
http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/08/15/indigenous-aboriginal-or-aborigine-its-not-black-and-white
A lot of geographic stuff here have Aboriginal names anyway. Uluru is just the most famous example of one where preferences have changed in recent memory, and it probably stuck because it's very high profile, a major sacred site, and an objectively better name. The Devil's Marbles don't usually get called Karlu Karlu, and I couldn't tell you an Aboriginal name for Wave Rock or the Twelve Apostles, for example.
Regarding Australia Day, I think most people acknowledge it's kind of an awkward thing, but there's no groundswell for an alternative. Unfortunately Australian Federation happened on January 1 so that isn't an option. Personally I want to rebrand Australia Day to New South Wales Day since that's what January 26 actually is. I don't know why the other states celebrate NSW's founding.
Regarding migrant groups, you'll get a tendency for people of all backgrounds to use "Aussie" for white Anglo Irish people, contrasted to other groups. I recently read that Bachar Houli, an AFL player with a Lebanese background, used to think of all non-Lebanese as just "Aussie" and being surprised that a Croatian-Australian teammate thought of himself as something other than "Aussie" for instance. I also hear second or third generation Greeks and Italians making a similar division between themselves and the dominant ethnicity.
Then there's all the fun internal taxonomies about FOBs vs second generation Asisns and such.
I am not sure what you mean by "racial traits as a source of difference". Do you mean like the Asian parent stereotype? Or like, lactose intolerance and the alcohol flushing thing some Asians get?
