Australia Day

1901 the white Australia policy excluded indigenous Australians from the vote and pensions. The roots of this policy can be seen all the way back in 1850 with the white miner 's hatred to the Chinese…

Gender Equality. It’s fictitious, fake and false. Australia would not be like it is today without sport. Although, men and women are viewed vastly different. As a nation, we need to put this inequity to an end, before an important part of Australia will end itself. BY Elli Chapple Gender Equality. What exactly is Gender Equality? It is unacceptable. Gender inequality is a significant matter that reflects on Australia today. Fairness and equality in sport does not exist and remain today…

Year 9 Persuasive Language Analysis Task Text 1 1. What is the author’s main contention? The authors main contention is to explain why the date of Australia Day should be changed. The Author thinks that changing the date of Australia Day will make Australia a better country and encourage all Australians to come together as one nation not two. In this text it says ‘Changing the date would show that we have aspirations for this country to become greater then it is. Our treatment of Indigenous…

protected. It has left a strong, unbreakable bond between New Guinea and Australia which will continue throughout both of the countries history. In September of 1939, the 6th Division was formed and the 7th division was formed in March of 1940.…

theme of Refugee’s coming into Australia. Our first question comes from Margot Louise and reads “ In the play Boy Overboard the issue of letting refugees into Australia was put into the spotlight. During the play the refugees that were living in Afghanistan were poorly treated and controlled. When they tried hard to get into Australia they got stranded…

Refugees in Offshore Processing Centres The treatment of asylum seekers and refugees in offshore processing centres has been described in numerous articles as ‘overly harsh, inhuman and degrading’, with many scholars highlighting their concerns that Australia is not complying with their international obligation to refugees and subsequently, neglecting their responsibilities by transferring refugees to offshore processing centres in other countries. The Australian Government has rebutted any…

and public, and due to previous attacks, reserve armies were being formed and deported2 above, one of these to the island 500km North-east of Australia, to New Guinea. Newspaper headlines such as Border Morning Mail’s ‘Australia Ready to Meet Japanese Attack,’ (Oct. 1941), spreads the idea and acknowledgment of a possible invasion across the whole of Australia and also comments that the Australian government was preparing in case of an attack. Even the soldiers were aware of the importance of…

The Murray River is the longest river in Australia, extending from the Australian Alps to the ocean at Lake Alexandria. It meanders 2,375 kilometers and passes across inland plains, functioning as a natural border barrier between New South Wales and Victoria. Being the longest river in a generally arid continent, the river serves important ecological, cultural, and economic roles. Brief history Many of the ancient aboriginal tribes of Australia depended on the river for their source of water,…

Eddie Koiki Mabo 's efforts to campaign for Aboriginal civil and land rights, a response to the discrimination Aboriginal communities have been subjected to in their own land, beginning from the arrival of the First Fleet and continuing to the present day despite numerous efforts. Prior to Mabo, the policies of Terra Nullius and Crown Land were seen as an unfair violation, and no representatives from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community decided to litigate it in court until Mabo…

1.1 Case Study The relationship between Indonesia and Australia is heated up since many negative issues that happened recently. It slowly started from the phone tapping of Indonesian President and its ministers by Australia and continues to tighten with the issue of asylum seekers and refugees. The issue has risen in terms of marine border between both countries caused by the blurry policies of asylum seekers in Australia, which caused Indonesia has to act accidentally to be responsible of the…