Australia

ownership of land has always been recognised by Britain; however, despite British recognition, the colonists in Australia managed to officially disregard this recognition by creating Australian law on the concept of ‘Terra Nullius’. Terra Nullius is the fiction that Australia was unoccupied at the time of colonisation. Many land councils and aboriginal organisations throughout Australia lobbied the Federal Government to protect any native title and fought for a more flexible and appropriate…

Australia had only been federated for 13 years before a war broke out in 1914, and with this recent federation, our government wanted to create its reputation among all nations of the world. However, it was not until 1915 that Australian and New Zealand soldiers joined the war and ‘set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula’ . The main goal of this campaign was to capture Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire and ‘an ally of Germany’ . The date marked April 25th when ‘the Australian…

Good Morning, Esteemed Guests and welcome to the Australia Day Citizenship Ceremony. Many of you have lived in Australia for a few years and already know how fantastic, scenic and amazing it is. I will prove this to you with my following arguments. The first point is that Australia has incredible landscapes. Secondly Australia has an amazing history and many opportunities. Finally Australia contains a diverse amount of people which allows us to make many different friends. Would you like to…

1972: The Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra is started on Australia Day due to land rights claims. 1984: The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Act is Passed. 1981: A land rights conference is held at James Cook University where Eddie Mabo makes a speech outlining the land ownership and inheritance system on Murray Island. A lawyer at the conference suggests there should be a test case on claiming land rights through the court system. 1981: A land rights conference is held at…

In 2013, the National Gallery of Victoria saw roughly 1,940,921 visitors. As the oldest and most visited gallery in Australia, the venue holds over 70,000 works that span several thousand years of history (About the NGV). Since the museum’s founding in 1861, the NGV has grown to include two buildings, NGV International and NGV Australia, located in Melbourne that house a variety of art and artifacts from around the globe including Europe, Asia, and Africa. From 18th century European oils of…

Business-Government Trade Relations in Australia No Special Economic Zones Australia is a very open, diverse, and competitive country that has a centralized location, making it a great country to trade with. Australia’s largest exports are mostly resource-based, including minerals and fuels like iron ore and coal. The country also exports many other goods and services, such as education, tourism, beef, dairy, wheat, and pharmaceuticals. However, although Australia’s international trade is…

Throughout Australia’s history, immigration has played a very important part in the development of the nation. As Australia was colonized and political parties took laws into effect, it has become more of a process to migrate to Australia if an individual is from another country. To control the flow of people wanting to immigrate to Australia, the Government has made laws and policies. The inpour of immigrants has dramatically increased as refugees in countries such as Syria have to seek safe…

that had fled their home country in fear of persecution. In 2011 there were a total of 1,669,725 asylum applications received worldwide, yet only 0.92% of those were made to Australia (Healey 2013). Despite being a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, Australia has some of the toughest immigration policies worldwide. Australia, for example, is the only western country to place asylum seekers in mandatory detention instead of allowing them to live in the community while their claims are…

make Australia a better place and what they should and could do to get closer to reaching true reconciliation in her point of view. Lisa’s view was my highlight because those who I interviewed did not know what would make a better place, they just were taught was reconciliation is and what has happened. This is because they are not education enough about it, it proves even those from the same cultural background are limited the amount of history they learn on Indigenous people of Australia. Lisa…

Aboriginal Population development The estimates about how many Aborigines were living in Australia in 1788 differ. According to Blake (1981), it were about 300,000 Aborigines in Australia, divided into about 600 tribes with around 500 members each (Blake, 1981). However, according to Dixon, Ramson & Thomas (1990), their total number of that time lay between one and two million, divided into about 700 tribes. In 1921, the Aboriginal population was at its lowest level so far with around 60,000…