Politics of Indigenous Recognition
Analyse the broad shifts that have taken place in Australian society since the end of the Second World War, and how those historical changes have shaped the contemporary nation
There has been an abundance of injustices suffered by the original owners of our land which still continue to this day but since WW2, which occurred from 1939-1945, Indigenous Recognition has been one of the rapidly changing important issues in Australian society. Although there has been a shift towards recognition, which has helped to shape this nation into a more diverse and accepting nation, we have still not come far enough to ‘Closing the gap’. Indigenous Recognition is defined as having a voice to parliament, treaties and truth …show more content…
Aboriginal people still do not feel that the recognition process which began after WW2 in 1967, is reasonable and just. Megan David argues that Australian needs a more in-depth acknowledgement of the injustices which occurred such as the Frontier war, the Killing times, the Protection era the stolen wage and the stolen generation . There are many contemporary issues which are not creating Indigenous recognition. As written about by Peter Seidel the Indigenous Yorta Yorta people lodged a native title claim in 1994 for what is rightfully theirs and, in their claim, they sought recognition of basic truth; that they had always been an intimate part of Yorta Yorta country. For many years they fought for their native title but in 2002 the High Court dismissed their appeal because there was an ‘interruption’ in the Yorta Yorta observance of traditional law and custom in 1881. More needs to be done in order for things like this to never occur again. There is still an abundance of horrific racism as perceived in a study by David Mellor titled “Contemporary Racism in Australia: The Experiences of Aborigines” , which is towards Indigenous people including behaviour racism such as ignoring, avoiding, patronising, segregation, harassment, assault and denial of identity. Another form of subtle racism which is blocking the way of constitutional recognition is the stereotype that all Aboriginal people have drug and alcohol problems by being discriminatory and treating them differently because of their race which is unacceptable . In 2010, Labour launched the
Analyse the broad shifts that have taken place in Australian society since the end of the Second World War, and how those historical changes have shaped the contemporary nation
There has been an abundance of injustices suffered by the original owners of our land which still continue to this day but since WW2, which occurred from 1939-1945, Indigenous Recognition has been one of the rapidly changing important issues in Australian society. Although there has been a shift towards recognition, which has helped to shape this nation into a more diverse and accepting nation, we have still not come far enough to ‘Closing the gap’. Indigenous Recognition is defined as having a voice to parliament, treaties and truth …show more content…
Aboriginal people still do not feel that the recognition process which began after WW2 in 1967, is reasonable and just. Megan David argues that Australian needs a more in-depth acknowledgement of the injustices which occurred such as the Frontier war, the Killing times, the Protection era the stolen wage and the stolen generation . There are many contemporary issues which are not creating Indigenous recognition. As written about by Peter Seidel the Indigenous Yorta Yorta people lodged a native title claim in 1994 for what is rightfully theirs and, in their claim, they sought recognition of basic truth; that they had always been an intimate part of Yorta Yorta country. For many years they fought for their native title but in 2002 the High Court dismissed their appeal because there was an ‘interruption’ in the Yorta Yorta observance of traditional law and custom in 1881. More needs to be done in order for things like this to never occur again. There is still an abundance of horrific racism as perceived in a study by David Mellor titled “Contemporary Racism in Australia: The Experiences of Aborigines” , which is towards Indigenous people including behaviour racism such as ignoring, avoiding, patronising, segregation, harassment, assault and denial of identity. Another form of subtle racism which is blocking the way of constitutional recognition is the stereotype that all Aboriginal people have drug and alcohol problems by being discriminatory and treating them differently because of their race which is unacceptable . In 2010, Labour launched the