Australian Aboriginal culture

Indigenous people of basic human rights and freedoms, and robbing generations of their connection to their families and culture. The Act was abolished in 1969, however, the trauma continues to impact the wellbeing of Indigenous people today. In an effort to reconcile past injustices and improve the lives of Indigenous people, the Federal Parliament established the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Act 1991 (CAR) (Cth) to manage the reconciliation process in Australia. This essay will…

been involved with such discrimination, two fascinating examples to compare and contrast are Australia and the Aboriginal Australians, and New…

nullius’, which means empty land. The Indigenous Australians were denied any legal claims to the land and classified as part of the fauna. They had to deal with disease, violence, forced relocations and their children were taken and adopted out to white families. It took until 1967 to be recognized as citizens and receive the right to vote. Despite this progress, Indigenous Australians are still more disadvantaged than non-indigenous Australians, so much that they are sometimes called ‘fourth…

The Yolngu culture, which means, “person”, is among the oldest living cultures on earth. Some researchers claim it is 400,000 years from two different lineages. Forty four thousand years ago the mixing of genes was reported before Australia separated from Papua New Guinea. Researched have stated that humanity could have started in Australia. The Aboriginal people were considered the first Australian. [1] The majority of Yolngu, who number approximately 5000, live in communities of between 500…

on Nyoongar (Noongar/Nooga/Nyungar) people. Indigenous Australians are also referred to as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia and there are several hundred groups/communities/tribes spread across Australia e.g. Ngunnawal people were the first inhabitants of Canberra, Eora people of Sydney, Alyawarre people of north east Alice Springs, Nyoongar people of Western Australia etc. Nyoongar people are Indigenous Australians who live in the south-western corner of Western…

often triggered children to feel disconnected with their culture/traditional ways and their family’s history (Cowlishaw, 2004). Both of Patricia’s grandparents had been removed from their families, which she believes is why her grandfather encouraged his grandchildren to question what they believed to be wrong in the world (O 'Shane, Miller, Miller, & O 'Shane, 2010). In Contrast, Patricia was raised by her father Patrick O’Shane (Irish Australian)…

One such suggestion is to put aside a special room dedicated to local Aboriginal people and then have local Aboriginal people come and teach the history of the area to school classes there (Pryor and McDonald, 2010). Not only would this give young Aboriginal people a better understanding of their culture but would also help young white people understand and in tern hopefully respect Aboriginal culture. Boori gives many other options such as this and although hearing the same thing over…

Although through thee span of years Australia has taken measures to address the issues faced by the Aboriginal Community, The year 2016 Federal election campaign has been able to address the issues until certain extent. The essay critically looks at the history and the present issues faced by the Indigenous Australian Community and how has 2016 Federal election campaign has been able to address the issues of the present. In the year 1770 Lieutenant James Cook first arrived to Australia at the…

The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy (AEP) (Commonwealth of Australia, 1989, p.15) discussed that the long-term goal for schools should be “to enable Aboriginal attainment of skills to the same standard as other Australian students throughout the compulsory schooling years.” Moreover, it called for the “introduction of technology and technology information to assist the development of self-determination through the cultural evaluation for Aboriginal and Torres…

Australia is the smallest continent. Most people these days’ associate Kangaroos, and the pop artist, Iggy Azealia to the country. I myself was guilty of that until I had a conversation with someone from the Oceanic country and became enlightened. In order for the employees to enter or leave the Magic Kingdom, they have to get brought in by a company authorized bus, unless you are one of the very few that has been granted gate access. As I sat on the bus, to head back to my car after a long day…