Australian Aboriginal culture

Indigenous Australians and their identities are a reflection of Australian history. The Aboriginals culture, connection with nature and traditions shape Australian society and shape a great love and respect for the land. Doris Pilkington’s Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence (1996) is a non-fiction biographic text. With the use of emotive language and primary sources, Doris Pilkington explains about the Indigenous Australian’s identities pre colonisation, during colonisation, and post colonisation.…

Indigenous Housing: A Study of Australian Aboriginal Homes Dome or egg shaped shelters are a traditional construction method seen in Australian Aboriginal settlements. The permanent buildings were better constructed with mud and grass used to waterproof the walls and roofs. Many of the houses had walls made of stone with clay infill incorporated to minimize flooding and leaking. The dome shaped form of the Aboriginal stone engineering was considered very warm during colder times of the year.…

When I asked many of my Asian friends about their impression about Australian people, almost no one thought of Aboriginal people at first. I recalled a friend’s excitement about his first holiday last year down under where his only perception about the Aboriginal people is the boomerang bought from a souvenir shop in Melbourne. Before coming to Australia, my impression about them was limited to black curly hair people living in the outback, boomerang, didgeridoo, traditional dance typically…

Assimilation in Australia had a significant impact on the Indigenous population for many generations, therefore, becoming a turning point in the history of Australia. And although the Australian Government presumed that through assimilation, Indigenous people would enjoy and encounter the same standards of living as the white European population, once they had adopted European customs, this was not the case for many Indigenous people who are known as the stolen generation. Regardless of…

race is also significant in the oral health of Indigenous children and young people. Research on racism globally indicates that experiences of racism negatively affect health and well-being, but further research is needed within the Indigenous Australian context (Paradies, 2007), especially with oral health (Jamieson et al., 2011). Studies have found mixed results in whether Aboriginality itself…

process of reconciliation between Aboriginal Spirituality and religious traditions has been a long and slow one. This is especially so as various Christian denominations such as the Uniting Church, Catholics and Anglicans have only in the last twenty five years tried to pursue justice as Aboriginal culture was disregarded and silenced over the years. Consequently several Christian churches have played a major role in closing the gap that had prevented indigenous Australians from having an equal…

Land is a major aspect of aboriginal culture and traditions. It is part of your kanyini, which means connectedness. In aboriginal culture you need to be connected to the land. If you lose part of your kanyini you lose part of yourself so if you are disconnected from your land it has a big toll on you spirituality and connectedness. Many aboriginal people were and are separated from their land for various reasons including: Mining, lack of resources, the stolen generation, farming, redevelopment…

Aboriginal people are the original custodians of Australia. They have survived on this land for thousands of years before European settlement in 1788, and it is one of the longest surviving cultures in the world. However, Australian society has turned a blind-eye to the culture and traditions of Aboriginal people. They are choosing to ignore the tragic past that ended in many massacres of Aboriginal people. The documentary Utopia directed by John Pilger, and the play No Sugar by Jack Davis…

I first present the question, “at the time of the arrival of the British, did Indigenous Australians have sovereign power over their lands? If so, was the doctrine of ‘terra nullius’ which had been used to settle the continent incorrectly applied? Mabo v Queensland (No. 2) (1992) came out with an outstanding conclusion, held at a judgement by…

tour began atop a ledge over looking the bodies of water (Hawkesbury River, Pittwater and Cowan Water) that suround the National Park. Image one represents one of the many points of entry utilized by European settlers to gain access to the vast Australian landscape. Australia was once believed to be uninhabited prior to the arrival of the first fleet of settlers in the late eighteenth century. In a systematic process…