Australian English

Australia prior to 1965. While Protectionism aimed to be a ‘smooth pillow to die on’, the policy of Assimilation culturally mixed the races. Assimilation was a policy implemented by the Australian Government which integrated ATSI into the Australian Society, this policy aimed to make Aboriginals ‘similar’ to white Australians and culturally mixed. As a result, this policy would extend the language, culture, beliefs, clothing and manner of living of the ATSI race but would genetically ‘die out’…

teacher in the future time I may have an influence for Aboriginal students within their learning through the concept stated in (Price, 2012) which had acknowledged that all students have the right to learn about their own language and signified that Australian language as Aboriginal language. Through the statistics (Korff, 2015) it is evident that more than 66% of Aboriginals live in NSW, QLD, and Victoria, which reveals it’s the most popular areas in the nation where Aboriginal people live in.…

English colonisation of Australia was problematic due to the British lack of acknowledgement of indigenous people’s proprietorship of the land for thousands of years. When English settlers colonised Australia, their actions suggested the land was terra nullius; a legal doctrine claiming land to be ‘occupied by no one’ (Bailey, 1997). Under this principle the British government colonised Australia establishing British sovereignty and imposing their laws to govern the land under the Crown…

Language is a main cause of miscommunication because teachers/students don’t understand Aboriginal English, and some Aboriginal students don’t understand English which can lead to bad grades, and affect their relationships with non-Aboriginal people. Another issue is culture, which isn’t properly accommodated in schools and can lead to miscommunication issues such as Aboriginal…

Structural barrier is caused by the deeply entrenched institutional racism and white privilege in the Australian health system. Henry, Houston, and Mooney (2004) described the impacts of colonisation and its consequences to the well-being of Indigenous Australians. Little was done to address the impartiality they experience with the health system in spite of the government being aware of their current situation (Henry, Houston, &…

learning” (Dictionary.com, 2015). In my paper I will examine indigenous culture and its revival or rebirth by looking at what Indigenous Culture is, its origins, what it means to Aboriginal people and how it is being revived today in the current Australian society. I will start with a quote from Creative Spirits an Aboriginal website that to me shows the wonder of Aboriginal Culture. “The Aboriginal cultural heritage is a treasure cave, and once you walk inside and begin to glimpse at its…

the structure of those economic resources and whether the ecosystem possesses the appropriate food attributes.” To survive in these ecosystem, hunter-gathers are commonly the most successful in utilizing the resources available in rainforests. Australian Aborigines were indeed hunter-gathers. During the wet season, the Aborigines lived off nuts and fruits. At the end of the wet season, the availability of resources in rainforest will fully utilize. Aborigines feasted on rats, snakes, crocodiles…

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…

lived in semi-permanent housing. Perhaps this is the reason that, despite their great strives for connection, the Australian Aboriginal peoples did not form great bonds between their differing cultural groups. Intensely isolated from the rest of the world, this increased separation proved fatal to the cultural community. From an estimated 1 million in number, the population of Australian Aboriginals dropped to around 93 200, taking much of their culture down with them. If the…

negative attributes, where this realism of character resonates with Jakes notion (2009.p.9), that Australian writers who are striving to illustrate a valid representation of Australian society must include Indigenous characters with a diversity of backgrounds. The passion in the author 's writings is clearly visible in her depictions of the Arnhem Land community that Rosie lives in. Set in the outback Australian landscape amidst the 2007 political agendas, particularly in relation to John…