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I'm not sure that the 3% are mostly actually indigenous- AFAIK, most "aborigines" are white people who uncovered a family legend of some aboriginal descent and want to use it to grift.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but unlike in the USA there's no incentive for the aboriginal tribes to try to push out these people. Cherokees and Commanches and Choctaws have a real incentive to try to limit membership- they have to spread their resources around to every member of their tribe, and there's limits to how many resources they can generate. This is likely a major factor limiting the spread of amerind wokeness.
There is an element of that around specific tribes/lineages for Mineral Rights & other big influxes of money into Indigenous communities.
Also it's a kind of interesting catch 22. The groups with actual economic benefits tend to be out in remote locations with significant mineral deposits, whilst the tribes in most of the greater metropolitan seaboard were sufficiently disenfranchised that they don't even have any real clear lines of descent into the modern day. Combine that with Amerindians tending towards being far more advanced and stable in the first place, therefore clearer lines of lineage.
If I was trying to claim specific descent and a cut of BP's Indigenous tax payments to whatever groups in the NT, I'd face issues from the local. The main issue with the Australian version as-is is that even claiming a very boilerplate Indigenousnessishness gives you access to a bevy of benefits on its own.
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I'm just going off what the census data says. While it's probably true that the numbers have increased at least a little due to grifting/socially incentivised white people claim descent. But my general impression is that it isn't nearly to the same extend than happens in say, Canada. The relationship between Australian society and Indigenous people is slightly different to that in Canada or the US - here in Australia, having a claim of Indigenous member does imply something more concrete about the culture practices you engage in. 'Indigenous' is more a claim of ethnic culture, rather than literal genetic ethnicity in many cases.
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