Australian Aborigines

Bran Nue Dae (2009) is a film directed by accomplished Aboriginal director Rachel Perkins, based on the acclaimed stage play by Chi & Knuckles (1991). An exuberant road movie musical full of effervescent energy and infectious humour that captures the screen from its initial frame. This film is set in 1969 in the coastal pearling town of Broome that follows the story of Willie an Aboriginal teenager who escapes from a religious boarding school and sets on a hero’s journey to return to his home…

retreated to spaces across the land with landmarks such as mountains or rivers. Because of their presence, these spaces became sacred and offered a path to their afterlife called Kwelandamundi (Whitfield). This cosmogony is most similar to that of the Australian Aboriginals and the theme of transformation. They believed that in the beginning the earth was barren of any landforms, animals, or humans, and entities called Dreamings began to transform the earth and make it what it is today. These…

On top of this, Qantas is a founder of Supply Nation, an organisation that supports supplier diversity and connects leading brands and the government with indigenous Australian suppliers. In the 2014/2015 financial year Qantas purchased $1.75 million of goods from indigenous suppliers (Qantas 2015). Value of services and products As mentioned in their mission statement, Qantas aims to provide the highest quality service…

following research essay will critically discuss and examine what the value of the australian law if it is based on a violent foundation? The essay will delve into the history of colonisation in order to justify the current predicament the country is in and the displacement the indigenous people of australia still feel today while acknowledging the praiseworthy efforts to make change. Despite the poor history of the australian law it is ever revolutionising and we should not disregard its value…

relationship the Aboriginal people had with the land prior to colonisation and provides a basis for the ongoing impacts that the disruption to the relationship has had on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous Australians. The film also underlines the racism projected towards Indigenous Australians and the power and superiority that the Early Settlers made apparent over the Indigenous people resulting in disagreement and atrocity causing banishment of the Indigenous…

Many cultures don’t traditionally use written words to communicate cultural and family history. Australian Aboriginals tell stories of ‘The Dreamtime’ to explain how and why things have happened in their history. The Chinese have stories of Dragons that protect the people from drought or flood. Then you have written stories of the Bible that are handed…

The idea of sports has been around since humankind. Ancient Greece introduced the Olympic Games in 776 BC which still to this very day encourages athletes to train for early on in their lives (“’History’”). Cristiano Ronaldo for example was only ten when he was deemed “A phenomenon—a kid who ate, slept and drank the game” (Christiano). George Jr, or better known as “Babe Ruth”, was only seven when he was introduced into baseball (Babe). How do children grow up to be talented in a sport? The…

Walls, M. L., Hautala, D., & Hurley, J. (2013). “Rebuilding our community”: Hearing silenced voices on Aboriginal youth suicide. Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(1), 47–72. http://doi.org/10.1177/1363461513506458 This study seeks to share the voices of community members from three separate First Nations reserves in Manitoba in relation to their experiences with youth suicide, its potential root causes and its impact on the community. Methods used were qualitative analyses of focus groups with…

Current Australian culture boasts its diverse equality in a time of multiculturalism across the country building a large minority of citizens. But many contradictions to this exist in the law and in communities. A large issue is the inequality thrust upon indigenous youth in Australia, being some of the last living descendants of the original citizens of this nation, it seems logical that they would receive the same treatment as every other citizen of Australia let alone the tools needed to…

Racial Bias It would be hard to say that people are born into their prejudice, but rather form their prejudice towards other races from a young age due to influences from their peer groups or parental values and even societal values. Jane Elliott’s classic ‘Blue-eyed, Brown-eyed’ experiment has challenged people 's formed racial biases (Elliott, Golenbock and Talmadge, 2008). This will be discussed in more detail below. In order to understand racial bias one must understand what racism is. It…