Australia Day

about the process of getting to Australia as a refugee or an asylum seeker, it will talk about what people smugglers are, what Detention Centers and Immigrants are, It will also talk about where they have come from and how they arrive in Australia. What is a refugee? A refugee is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, famine, persecution or natural disaster. They also have been granted refugee status in order to come to Australia. What is an Asylum…

Australian’s First Peoples’ the traditional custodians of the land we know of today were invaded by the European settlers who for economic purposes laid claims to land dispositioning Australia’s First People (Dudgeon, Milroy & Walker, 2014, p. 7). In 1905 an act named as the Western Australian Aborigines Act 1905 saw a Chief Protector of Aborigines become the legal guardian of all Aboriginal people. This saw the removal of children…

Manly is beachside suburb that has undergone change in the past 20 years. It is a 15km2 beachside suburb full of sand, shops and resorts on the Sydney’s northern beaches. It has a national park within its boundaries and stretches right along to the North Head of Sydney Harbour. It is located at 33.7922⁰S, 151.2826⁰ and 17km from the Sydney CBD. The traditional indigenous owners of Manly are the Guringai People. The character of the community 20 years ago has changed greatly to become the present…

Bombardier Inc. is a Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company. The headquarter of Bombardier Inc. is in Montreal, Canada. In the beginning of the Bombardier, the products are snow machines or snowmobiles. Bombardier is the world’s leading manufacturer of both planes and trains. Our vast offering of products includes trains, rail equipment and control solutions for all market segments, as well as category-defining business jets and commercial aircraft. (Bombardier in the United…

Australia is known to be one of the most multicultural country in the world. However, most cultures that live in Australia do not fit in as white Australians. Mainstream Australians have the expectation that everyone who migrates to Australia should conform. According to some writers who identified the ideologies held by mainstream Australians, migrants or people from other cultures often feel excluded and discriminated. It is also evident through poems written by Komninos titled “Nobody calls…

Andrew Bovell’s stage adaption of Kate Grenville’s award-winning novel, The Secret River is “a stunning, shattering piece of theatre that goes to the heart of our history”. Audiences are emotionally and mentally challenged with the uncompromising story of cruelty and tragedy, presented through Australian and Indigenous realism style. This was accomplished through the this through the powerful and complex character representation, creating difference from Grenville’s narrative to the show and…

Through an understanding and appreciation of visual imagery, the responder can come to a deeper appreciation of the perspective of the composer. The short story writer Henry Lawson and the artist Frederick McCubbin convey a distinctive impression of the hardship involved in living in the Australian outback. This is clearly shown in the short stories “The Drover’s Wife”, “In A Dry Season” and ‘The Loaded Dog” as well as the painting ‘On The Wallaby Track’. These texts allow the responder to…

This paper analyzes the case, R. v. Sparrow [1990] 1 S. C. R. 1075 from the perspective of the legal positivism theory. As it shall be revealed later in this paper, the case is highly important in the history of Canadian law because it was in it that the Supreme Court of Canada made an important decision concerning the application of the rights of aboriginals, which, for a long time had been and is still controversial. Specifically, the court held that aboriginal rights, for example, fishing,…

Australia and China both adopt a different economic system in exchange for a substantial economic growth to benefit their own nation. China being ranked 2nd in the world’s largest economy employs a command economy, which means the decisions on production and investment is decided upon the government. In comparison, Australia is a highly developed nation with a mixed market economy, meaning that the economy has a certain degree of planning involving the government, but the private sector dictates…

Indigenous people. In 2008, on the 13th of February, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered an apology to Australia’s Indigenous people. This speech was delivered in the Parliament of Australia. In his speech Rudd (2008, para. 6 & 7) reflected on the ‘past mistreatment’ of Indigenous people in Australia, while also acknowledging that this mistreatment was a ‘blemished chapter in our nation’s history’. Rudd’s speech focused on apologizing to members of the Stolen Generations, conscious of…