Australian Aborigines

Recognition Analyse the broad shifts that have taken place in Australian society since the end of the Second World War, and how those historical changes have shaped the contemporary nation There has been an abundance of injustices suffered by the original owners of our land which still continue to this day but since WW2, which occurred from 1939-1945, Indigenous Recognition has been one of the rapidly changing important issues in Australian society. Although there has been a shift towards…

The psychological effects of facing health care for Australian Indigenous people. Indigenous people, when requiring westernised medical support, confront many issues. Facing treatment, stress can affect ones psyche, the family, the friends, and even community. Both stress and anxiety are major important factors, which require consideration when addressing the needs of Australian Indigenous groups. Health, development, personality and social factors can help explain psychological effects…

were relocated to the Moore River Settlement School which trained girls to be domestic workers or farm laborers and eventually these half-caste children were able to be assimilated into the white society. While the chief protector of Aboriginal Australians A.O. Neville believed that he was helping half-caste children by taking them out of their communities and placing them in settlement camps. The child removals had an adverse affect on both the indigenous…

rock engravings and paintings that dates back to 600 years, over 800 sites within the Park provide a significant relation to the Indigenous heritage. Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and have great cultural and spiritual importance for Indigenous Australians. The Aboriginal engravings show the practices and the lifestyle of their culture by how some of the engravings are of them hunting using boomerangs and…

llman The study abroad trip to Australia created an experience that could never be recreated in the class room. For some of the people the trip was a once in a life time opportunity. There were numerous times in Australia that what we learned in the classroom came into action, but better the experience gave us a better understanding. Study abroad allows a person to immerse themselves in to a new culture. Cultural can be more than language, food, and art; it can be the beliefs, and values of the…

As Australians we are proud of our culture we deem fair and just. Yet we often forget the prosperity of Australia was in great part the result of dispossessing the Aboriginal people of their lands. The Aboriginals lived peacefully, their culture and society sacred and complex. The land, a fundamental component of their spirituality and identity. However with the arrival of the British, Australia was declared Terra Nullius, a land that belonged to no one. In the 1900s while white Australia…

strong literature based on Aboriginal forms is to develop, the place for this development is among people least affected by assimilation, and once an upsurge of literature begins it is only a matter of conjecture where it may lead. In fact, future Aborigines may look back on this present settlement literature as having lost simplicity, or a complexity only brought out through a deep reading of the text (Mudrooroo 315). Developing an authentic and complex Aboriginal voice, separate from the…

approved relating to the only two discriminatory laws included in the Australian constitution. This referendum altered the balance of the inequity intended for to the aboriginals which strictly was a vote on the alteration of the constitution. Although, this referendum did give the indigenous Australians or Torres Strait Islanders the right to vote. This was a major endorsement, seeing the highest YES vote recorded in Australian…

hierarchy. Cruelty is shown through the character Smasher Sullivan, who believes that he is at the top of the social chain. Grenville uses the notion of social hierarchy to demonstrate the values of the British colony compared to the Indigenous Australians. Thornhill endorses the British idea that to own a piece of land there must be signs; something to determine that ‘a place belonged to [someone]’; ‘fences’ that said…

of belonging is another characteristic of the protection period as the aboriginals were forced to abandon their traditions and adopt the new culture of the colonialists which the government described as the suitable way of ensuring that all the Australians believed in one culture. Taking the children away from their parents with an excuse of protecting them is another factor that characterize this era as a period marked with anxiety and fear both for the children and the parents. Girls were…