Australian Aboriginal culture

this can delay treatment (Narine, 2013). In addition, as non-Indigenous Australians, identifying strength based approaches that can be used in a an individual or community setting will allow trustful and respectful relationships with Indigenous people to come seek help…

The Australian indigenous youth are a minority of the overall Australian youth, just 4.2% of the entire youth’s population (ABS, 2012), they continue to face many daily challenges while growing up in modern Australian society. To understand the issues the indigenous youth face, the two films Yolngu Boy and Black Chicks Talking were watched. This essay will discuss the main cultural influences and how aboriginal Australians are connected by their own and western cultures, the reasons for the…

No Sugar by Noongar author Jack Davis explores the endemic violence, brought upon by the exhibition of oppression by the White Australian supremacy towards the ostracised Aboriginals. No Sugar is set during the 1930s, a dark time in Australia where abusive treatment towards the Aboriginals was seen as a cultural norm. The context evokes the struggle for the Aboriginals to survive in dehumanising conditions, controlled by a domineering government that’s prevalent within the society during the…

Canadian Residential School & Australian Residential School Christina Bu History 30 Mr. Alexander December 10, 2015 Both Canadian and Australian had a period dark history that about the first nation, which is aboriginal people. In the 19s century and 20s century, the government established the residential school for the first nation’s children to learn the European culture. This decision has changed many aboriginal children’s whole life; it almost kill a…

Glenn Murcutt is an Australian Architect. He works as a sole practitioner, where his main architectural designs focus on modernist houses that respond to their climate and surroundings. Most of his work are at small scale and are affected by the land and climate of his native Australia. His designs reflect the idea of maintain a harmonious interaction with the environment. Some of the materials that he typically uses are corrugated iron with the ribs laid horizontally and different types of…

out roughly 15,000 convicts. The first interaction between the British settlers and the indigenous Australians was one of anger; the British believed the Indigenous Australians were uncivilised because of the way they lived. Indigenous Australians attempts to frighten away the British failed as they were less advanced with their weaponry. Due to the unsuccessful attempts from the Indigenous Australians, the British invaded their connection with their land leaving them with nothing. Not long…

Introduction Aboriginal people are culturally diverse with a substantial and convincing history. The Aboriginal Australians had an impact of colonisation, legislation and the stolen generation which has created a major hardship for them. These problems are continuing today with an impact on Aboriginal people and their mental health. As a result, of the impact of their history, problems such as anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression are becoming more ordinary in Aboriginal…

Thought the speech the language used by Kevin Rudd talks of our nation as a community The sorry speech uses language to empower the Aboriginal Australians successfully. Seven times the word sorry was repeated to emphasise the used to apologise of the pain, suffering and hurt of the Stolen Generation. Many other words used to display the and elaborate of pain and hurt Sorry may just be a word, but it should help the history of our past come back into our curriculum for the current generation…

people and addressing different social Justice Issues. The Aboriginal people feel that because the Australian Government has acknowledged the past and has paid respect towards those who were falsely treated, the Parliament has now laid down new foundations for healing to take place. For the victims of the ‘Stolen Generations’, the Apology Day was a day of celebration, tears, a sense of relief, and a sense of dignity to all of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The word ‘sorry’ is…

The native Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia had, since western settlement in 1788, been dispossessed of their natural freedoms and rights. Centuries later, by 1954, the law still discriminated against the indigenous, inhibiting their civil liberties; however, many improvements have occurred which substantially bettered the standards of life as present. Originally, Aborigines were considered savages and fell under the Flora and Fauna Act, but through the reconciliation…