Australian Aborigines

This Indigenous Australian Education unit has presented and exposed me to a lot of new knowledge in relation to Indigenous Aboriginal identity, culture and stereotypes. My own family identity is of non-Indigenous Australian nationality, born and raised in Western Sydney, NSW. My family race is of white-Caucasian Australian which can be stereotyped for culturally consuming beer regularly and wearing cork hats, which I categorically do not do; and using typical Australian slang phrases such as…

Statistics from the 2004 General Social Survey on Victimization show that 40% of Aboriginal[1] Canadians have been victims of criminal activities and/or hate crime. This number is almost twice the number of non-Aboriginal Canadians who were victims of crime. Indigenous women make up a high percentage of this number. As the class and power struggle between Indigenous[1] and non-indigenous Canadians intensifies, Indigenous women are burdened with both gender and race based abhorrence. There have…

1. Life expectancy at birth for Indigenous people is on average 17 years lower than that for the total Australian population. 2. In non-remote areas Aboriginal adults were twice as likely to be affected by and to report disability and/or chronic disease. 3. In 2006 21% of 15 year old Indigenous people versus 5% of 15 year old non–Indigenous people were not participating in school education. 4. The proportion of Aboriginal people in post secondary education, with a qualification of certificate…

THE GREENS The party established in 1992 has four elemental significance i.e. ecological sustainability, social justice, grassroots democracy and peace and non-violence. The party tries to maintain fair trade deals which can keep the transparency going in order to maintain peace and build trust. The Greens are not enthusiastic about the trade agreements that are taking place as these trade agreements according to them are not keeping in mind all the environmental factors and are only interested…

Aboriginal people’s traditional lands. They defined aboriginals as a doomed race (due to their intelligence and way of living). Therefore, in the name of protection, lots of policy relating to removal of children had been created and impacted on the Australian native people and their society over time. Even until now in 2016, some of the scars still cannot recover, such as loss of cultural identity, loss of language, extinction of tribes and clans and the “Stolen Generation”. These policies…

For my reconciliation plan I undertook two sets of plans, helping out the Indigenous tutoring from St. Brigid’s College, interviewing them and educating those on the Indigenous history. Throughout my journey of completing my reconciliation plan of helping with the Indigenous tutoring and interviewing them I learnt a lot more than I did before I started. I learnt that there are so many different perspectives on the history of Indigenous people, not only about the stolen generation which many…

The Australian 1967 Referendum was a referendum called by the Holt Government that occurred on the 27th of May 1967. The 1967 Referendum was significant for the civil rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders because it amended Section 51 and removed Section 127 from the Australian Constitution both of which discriminated against Aboriginals. A staggering 90.77% of Australian voters voted in favour of changing the Constitution believing that it would end racial discrimination towards…

Seeing where I was before this course and where I am now, I can see that there is a huge difference. When I opened my envelope, I found out that my Idea on what I knew about Indigenous people then and now are so different. In my envelope, I wrote that as an Immigrant who is knew to Canada, all I knew about Indigenous people was the Residential school and the Idea that they were the real owners of Canada. But after taking this course, I have come to realize a lot about the Indigenous peoples and…

In 1999 Serena Williams won a singles victory at the U.S. Open, which made her the second black woman to win a Grand Slam title. The first being Althea Gibson. As an african american tennis player Serena has overcome and dealt with many difficulties. She has been told that she and her sister Venus (also a tennis player) are arrogant and unfriendly to others on the court and off the court. Serena is well known for her tennis skill and all the events that she has won at a young age. She also…

World The woman who made this sublime piece of ceramic artwork goes by the name of Thancoupie. This is an aboriginal ceramic and it was made in a time where clay was used in a ceremonial context. The history of Australian Aboriginal art has spanned over thousands of years. Aboriginal artists still use traditional and modern materials while creating their art. Artist Thancoupie was born in 1937 in the rural town of Weipa in Queensland; she died in 2011. When she was young, clay was very…