Australia

Freedoms and Rights in Australia and the USA Australian Freedom Rides The Australian Freedom Rides in 1965 were inspired by the 1961 Freedom Rides in the United States. Based in the University of Sydney, the students decided to use the same strategy to promote civil rights. Under the title of ‘Student Action for Aborigines’ or SAFA their tactic was to take the civil rights movement out in to regional Australia to actively confront as well as contest racial discrimination which was a major…

prevalent in Australia can be supported by a rapid changing multicultural Australia. Through an examination of Linda Ng’s review Dead Europe and the coming of age in Australian literature: Globalisation, cosmopolitanism and perversity, the binary relationship between Europe and Australia will be looked at with a focus on ‘Cosmopolitism’. Alongside,…

The other rationale deterrence measures is that they prevent futile deaths. However, drawing causal relationships between Australia’s policies and refugee mortality is an almost impossible task. While Operation Relex and Operation Sovereign Borders clearly reduced arrivals to Australian territory, their impact on the attempted journeys has not been transparently reported by the relevant government agencies. The claims of immigration ministers are accepted, however, these operations have slowed…

Australians have experienced maltreatment and a deprivation of their civil liberties for generations is well-documented. In discussing the ways in which Aboriginal people and their white supporters promoted Civil Rights and Indigenous Rights in Australia from the late 1950s through to 1972, this essay will provide a representative rather than comprehensive treatment. It will begin with a brief overview of the state of affairs leading up to the late 1950s. The notion of ‘rights’ as well as the…

important aspect of Australian culture. Some attribute the prominence of sport in Australia to the fitness required for the survival of aboriginal tribes during prehistoric times (Parker, 1996). Regardless of the origin of sports’ cultural significance in Australia, its importance is indubitable. However, the question of whether the importance and representation of sport in a cultural identity is exclusive to Australia, still remains. The notion that Sport is as Australian as ‘Kangaroos, Holden…

Prior to commencing this unit, I never thought twice about ‘white privilege’, how racism is more than individual unjust acts towards another person or how the history of Australia may affect Indigenous Australians. This is largely because the families in the area I resided in were predominantly Non-Indigenous Australians and throughout my schooling years the education on Indigenous Australians I received was limited to tokenistic attributes of the culture. However, after reading the course…

The policies of Assimilation and Protectionism had detrimental impacts upon the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) communities throughout Australia prior to 1965. While Protectionism aimed to be a ‘smooth pillow to die on’, the policy of Assimilation culturally mixed the races. Assimilation was a policy implemented by the Australian Government which integrated ATSI into the Australian Society, this policy aimed to make Aboriginals ‘similar’ to white Australians and culturally mixed.…

“The way forward for Australia as a nation is to embrace the essence of indigenous cultural renaissance.” Renaissance as described by Dictionary.com is “revival or rebirth especially of culture and learning” (Dictionary.com, 2015). In my paper I will examine indigenous culture and its revival or rebirth by looking at what Indigenous Culture is, its origins, what it means to Aboriginal people and how it is being revived today in the current Australian society. I will start with a quote from…

Horrible crimes in violation human rights are happening in Australia. A very personal and serious violation of basic human rights is Australia is forced sterilization. The act of forced sterilization is considered illegal, but it still happening and needs to be stopped. The first step in stopping this is to understand what sterilization is, who it affects, and how it affects them. The first step in putting a stop to forced sterilization is understanding what sterilization is. Sterilization is…

Migration. To go from one country, region, or place to another. Australia today holds home to over 23 million people, and migration is the main driver in that force. This year almost 90 000 people have migrated to the lucky country. Migration to Australia began in 1788 when the settlement of European convicts began; these migrants were involuntary and were shipped from mainly Britain and Ireland. A total of 80 000 migrants from this era found there way to New South Wales between 1788 and 1840…