Australian Aboriginal culture

disparities gap between the Australian government and Indigenous people. This movement was outlined in Prime Minister Rudd’s 2008 Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples speech. In Prime Minister Rudd’s speech, he outlined several initiatives known as the Close the Gap Approach, that he believed would reset the relationship between Australian governments and Indigenous peoples as well as lower the disparities between them (Rudd, 2008). The approach has reduced Indigenous Australians to a range…

Indigenous peoples do not have an equal opportunity to be as healthy as non-Indigenous Australians There has been very little progress in reducing this inequality gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australians over the past decade, for example in relation to long term measures such as life expectation Death rates from cardiovascular disease in the general population have fallen 30% since 1991, and 70% in the last 35-years16 whereas Indigenous people do not…

the lives of the children. Firstly this essay will examine how the children in Kurdistan are forced to become adults at a young age, then it will analyse how education was considered useless and how that differs to the life of people in a western culture. Finally we will consider how gunfire was encouraged to the children in Kurd. In the Kurdish camp, the children were often given a lot of responsibility and they were depicted as the stronger ones of the group. The town leaders often asked for…

girls attacked due to their ethnicities in this country contradicts this idea of Canada. The treatment of Indigenous peoples is the most shameful part of Canadian History. Canadians of the past have stripped the Indigenous peoples of their land and culture and now decades of Canadian government policies have impoverished and harmed Indigenous families and communities. Thus, the issue about missing and murdered…

dispositioning Australia’s First People (Dudgeon, Milroy & Walker, 2014, p. 7). In 1905 an act named as the Western Australian Aborigines Act 1905 saw a Chief Protector of Aborigines become the legal guardian of all Aboriginal people. This saw the removal of children from their families and further dispositioning of Aboriginal people. Between the years of 1900 and 1972 approximately ten to thirty percent of children born were removed…

Dr Gary Foley, an Aboriginal Gumbaynggirr activist, historian and leader effective between the years 1971 to 2000, has used his ties to his Aboriginal heritage and fame to become highly efficient in his field. Foley utilises an array of methods including his involvement in major political activities, his acting career and his countless informative essays to raise awareness and truth about the Aboriginal population within Australia. Gary Foley spent the majority of his youth in Nambucca Heads,…

family to New South Wale in 1806. The novel gives a vivid description of William’s first night in the convict settlement in Sydney. The state of conflict between the Aborigines and the settlers, which is the center of novel, is introduced when an Aboriginal man approaches William’s mud hut and yells at him ‘be off’. William shouts back the same words to the man. There is no cooperation between the Aborigines and the settlers; neither people want anything to do with the other. Each of them wishes…

it that the Supreme Court of Canada made an important decision concerning the application of the rights of aboriginals, which, for a long time had been and is still controversial. Specifically, the court held that aboriginal rights, for example, fishing, that were in existence before s 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 and that existed before the provincial legislation that regulated aboriginal fishing were protected by the Canadian Constitution and couldn't be infringed unless the government…

It took years of hard work and dedication for Serena Williams to end up at the top of the tennis world. She proudly says that she came from nothing in a sport that expects you have a little something. While she’s currently No. 2, she ranked No. 1 in the world six times and held that position for a total of 309 weeks; the culmination of her achievements has led her to be regarded as one of the greatest female tennis players of all time. Serena, along with her sisters, found herself moving…

sisters to address a prejudice society that lead my own grandfather to be forcibly removed from his own sporting field. A man who wasn’t welcomed in his own clubhouse. A man who was benched. A man who was told he wasn’t Australian. Now, I can’t lie about the immense occurrence of Australian racism because racism is real. We all know this, because “Nothing’s Changed”. Now my grandfather is not alone. The violent interaction between black men, women, children and the police force plays out in…