Australian Aborigines

When I read Joseph Boyden’s “Abitibi Canyon”, I’ve learned a lot of how north american aboriginal peoples are treated and then I used connectedness throughout his text to further understand the meanings. I used connectedness because it reminded me when I visited my mother’s hometown which is a reservation for native peoples. I thought,” where would everybody be if there wasn’t a reserve?” Another thought that came to my mind was,” the place felt so confined and in the middle of nowhere…

Canada’s fastest growing, discriminated race, unhappy with what they call home In CBC’s 8th Fire series; many aboriginals address the commonly known stereotypes and difficulties that they have been facing for a long period of time. It rises many mixed emotions for viewers but Canada is turning into a very diverse country and everyone is given equal opportunities if they strive for them. Long ago Aboriginals were given parcels of land called reserves for them specifically to live on. Under…

Over the weekend, Andy Murray won his third Grand Slam and second Wimbledon title, defeating next generation of tennis member Milos Raonic. The match was a fairly routine three-set victory (6-4, 7-6, 7-6) for Murray, who never seemed in jeopardy of losing the meeting. Raonic entered Sunday’s Wimbledon men’s final playing at a tremendously high level, fresh off the greatest win of his career, a five-set victory over arguably the greatest tennis player of all time, Roger Federer. In the semifinal…

advancing to the Australian Open final, where she lost in three sets to Angelique Kerber. On July 9, 2016, Williams found her way back to victory, defeating Kerber 7-5, 6-3 at Wimbledon and winning her 22nd grand slam title. With her historic win, Williams tied Steffi Graf for the most major championships in the Open era of professional tennis, which started in 1968. The Williams sisters had originally been seeded as no. Williams came back with a historic victory at the 2017 Australian Open,…

in the 1950’s, with the introduction of the Television. Since then, Australian culture has been influenced dramatically by America. Americanisation has caused Australia’s popular culture to imitate American society and culture. This presentation agrees with this thesis and will argue that Americanisation has a positive effect on Australia. In particular, it will examine American impact on Television and food, as well as Australian fashion. Television is one of the major…

made up of those people who were there long before settlement. Misunderstood and misrepresented this race has been often ignored, however the last decade has seen these people and their lifestyles come out of the shadows and perfectly exhibited, in Australian film. Beginning in 2001, non indigenous director Steven Johnson released the culture conflicting film, Yolngu…

policies to get rid of Aboriginal people and tried to assimilate Aboriginal people into ‘white’ society. In 1991, the process of reconciliation formally began and this process has been continuing till now. Although the Indigenous Australians suffered under the Australian government in the past, the federal government has in fact been trying to make up and reconcile with them, because the federal government really feels sorry for what happened to Aboriginal people in the past and…

Australia is a nation whose initial growth was fuelled largely by the labour of prisoners and reminders of our penal roots can be seen everywhere in the form of heritage listed buildings. The concerted effort by the Australian Government in recent years to preserve many buildings that were built from convict labour demonstrates the value that our society has placed on retaining the bricks and mortar links to our historical origins. This was not always the case however as our convict beginnings…

In the 1900s thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were dispossessed and put into missions. The act of dispossession is to forcibly remove an Indigenous person from their land, this is what happened to these children, but not only were they removed from their land, but also their families. This was extremely harmful to the children as although they gained a higher education than many other Indigenous people they missed out on learning about their cultural heritage, which is…

The treatment of Australia’s Indigenous community is horrific. Indigenous Australians lived on this land for thousands of years before the white European settlers came and took their land along with their lives. Since the settlers arrived they have been treated like animals, lesser beings to the white European settlers and their descendants. The treatment of Australia’s Indigenous population has improved since the settlers but is nowhere near where it should be. They are forced to live with…