Australia Day

national day is at 26th of January. Their celebrating that on this day the first English settlement came to Australia. This day is celebrated by fireworks and good food, often barbeque. However there is some people in Australia that does not celebrate this day, the Aboriginal people. When the English settlement came to Australia the Aboriginal people where already there. Their lost their land to the Englishmen and their rights. So most Aboriginal people call the day the “Invasion Day”, “Day of…

but is actually a real animal. The scientific name for the tasmanian devil is Sarcophilus harrisii, it is a most unusual mammal that closely resembles a dog or a ferret (San Diego Zoo). Tasmanian devils live in tasmania (Australia) and they used to be found all over Australia but they went extinct on the mainland 400 years ago so they now reside in the safe lands of Tasmania where they can live in peace and tranquility. The tasmanian devil can be described as a ferret or doglike animal that is…

research question of this thesis will be the following: “How can we explain that Australia, historically considered as one of the most open-minded and multicultural countries of the world, applies such a protectionist policy (Operation Sovereign Borders) with regard to asylum seekers?”. The political and cultural analysis that will be investigated around this policy will aim, on the one hand, at discovering if Australia can still be nicknamed the “Land of Tomorrow” for people seeking to get the…

nation known as the Commonwealth of Australia was a colony of the British Empire and then its own independent state, this can be traced with the settlers from other parts of the world, namely those from Europe and Great Britain. I will focus on the immigrants who went to the continent of Australia and its development as a colony then how it became a nation. In particular, there will be a concentration on how mining and prospecting interest help cultivate Australia as we know it today. This will…

“Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” - Charles M. Schulz. Everybody knows about Australia, but do they really know everything? First, they should know the history behind Australia. Like who were the first settlers and how did they come upon Australia. It’s very important for everybody to know about it, because it’s such a big country and it’s the only country that’s a continent too. I know it’s not the “coolest” country out there, but people would…

in the centre of Australia at Longitude 23.6980 S and Latitude 133.8807 E, the surrounding region being central Australia. Alice springs is nearly equidistant from Adelaide, South Australia and Darwin and is located adjacent to the Simpson desert. Alice Springs has an annual average rainfall of 285.9 millimetres (though 70% of years are below average) and has a high evapotranspiration rate and aridity meaning it has a desert climate. The town experiences an average of 300 sunny days yearly and…

My essay will be about nation-building in Australia. I have chosen the holiday Anzac Day and the infamous outlaw Ned Kelly. Both of these symbols seek to emphasize the Australian identity of toughness, and unity but have been catered to specific purposes. In this, essay I attempt to discover how these symbols became so central to Australia, and how historically accurate they are. Anzac Day has become essentially Australian Day. The day allows for Australians to come together and celebrate as a…

Since Australia got independence from the colonial rule, it has continued to carry the cultural dimensions of the western society. The media of Australian society is very open and liberal and the society supports and gives place for people from all cultures and nationalities. Australia has a diversified nation where people from all over the world comes to live, work and study. However, there are various instances of racist incidents which are reported in the media and action is taken in most of…

society as one and differentiates them with others. As Benedict Anderson suggests, a nation itself is not given but rather constructed, by the style and ties in which the communities imagined, making them believe they are connected to one another. Australia, with its Aboriginal heritage and the past of being a part of Britain and is now labelled as multicultural, may have suffered from an identity crisis. Hence, by examining the myth of Terra Nullius and the Indigenous’ continuing struggles for…

There are over 22 000 000 people in Australia and around 112 000 Jewish people, this shows that around 0.3% of the country is made up of Jews. Jews have been an essential part of Australia’s history since the beginning of the European settlement. They have participated equally throughout the course of Australian history, staring from the First Fleet in 1788. Many Jewish people are involved in organisations or groups, one being the fight for aboriginal rights, there are also many groups that are…