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APB to assume full control and custody of any Indigenous child if the court ruled that the child’s welfare was at risk (Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)). Amendments to the Act in 1915 significantly increased the APB’s power and stripped the rights of parents, authorising the systematic removal of Aboriginal children without the requirement of a court order (Australian Human Rights Commission n.d.). Maddison (2013, p. 289) states the purpose of the child removal policy was to ‘erase…

English Analytical Essay FINAL Renowned for their inseparable relationship to their land, few people grasp the concept of Indigenous Australian peoples’ inextricable ‘connection’ with the Country. Opposing perspectives regarding the Australian Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) relationship to Country are offered by the author of Purple Threads, Jeanine Leane and Gary Crew, author of Strange Objects. Crew’s representation through the perspective of Wouter Loos’ journal and Steven Messenger includes…

claims were false which led to his downfall and he lost the case. The ignorance of Bolt’s and his readers reflects the wider community about Aboriginal life, and an important part of Heiss’s intention with this book is to educate non-Indigenous Australians about Aboriginal…

of dispossession in regards to the Aboriginal people and recognizing the truth. As we take a closer look on this issue we see that Australia can only function as a country of equality only if all Australians are seen as one. During the Mabo case a new era was introduced turning a new page in Australian history due to the coming end of Terra Nullius. By the recognition of aboriginal land rights and the recurring acknowledgment of the aboriginal tradition and past stories correcting the era that…

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…

This essay will analyze how the creation of the nation-state systemically marginalizes indigenous women because of their race, class, gender, ethnicity and sexuality. I will briefly define the concept of spatial segregation to understand how it relates to the film Finding Dawn and the book Ravensong. The nation-state facilitates violence towards indigenous communities through their laws, social practices, and institutional policies. Moreover, aboriginal women are highly vulnerable to male…

Australian Aborigines When learning about a new group of people it is best to understand their past and where they originated from. One of Australia’s indigenous groups is the Aborigines. The group is said to have migrated from Asia as early as 30,000 years ago. There are about 500-600 distinct groups of aboriginal people. Although there are different groups there are links between the groups that unify them such as their spiritual beliefs, storytelling and art. Their spiritual beliefs have a…

of welfare dependency, crime and other social and physical problems. "Put simply, effective Indigenous governance is governance that works for Indigenous people" (Australian Human Rights Commission, 2012, 92). Furthermore it is argued that though the three government structures of Indigenous governance, the lives of Indigenous Australians are better understood. Community governance for example allows for leadership that reflects Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander’s traditional and…

Police Hostility Towards Aboriginal People In the case of an emergency, police forces are the first to receive a call – as it is a lesson we are taught since childhood. They are our protectors from any type of malicious harm without regard to our ethnic background or our genders. In retrospect, has equality been the major focal point of police forces or does your ethnicity really come into question when in a life or death situation? This essay shall look at police hostility towards Aboriginal…

Sukhdeep Bhoi gives us some perspective on the events and experiences of the South Asian Indian immigrants in both the United States and Canada during the period 1900 to 1918 through the medium, Ghadar: The Immigrant Outrage Against Canadian Injustices. He is impartial when stating historical facts that need to be acknowledged by the masses. Bhoi writes with consummate influence of the principles of the Ghadar movement. He accentuates the importance of how Punjabi Sikh Americans are where they…