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their dreamtime stories into Australian mainstream schooling. Aunty Tina Quitadamo (cited in Beresford et al. 2003, p. 149) comments ” similar to our dreaming, I see quality education as an evolving, holistic, spiritual and educative process providing meaningful opportunities for personal growth”. For the past 200 years Australian education formulated post-colonial guidelines with an absolute insistence for all Indigenous children to learn, write, and read in English, with no allowances for…

out roughly 15,000 convicts. The first interaction between the British settlers and the indigenous Australians was one of anger; the British believed the Indigenous Australians were uncivilised because of the way they lived. Indigenous Australians attempts to frighten away the British failed as they were less advanced with their weaponry. Due to the unsuccessful attempts from the Indigenous Australians, the British invaded their connection with their land leaving them with nothing. Not long…

In 1770 Captain James Cook landed in Botany Bay with instructions to “with the consent of the natives take possession of the convenient situations in the name of the King… or if you find the land uninhabited Take Possession for His Majesty” (Australian Museum, 2015) these instructions held to European international laws at the time, however this request or the laws were not followed in the occupation of Australia. Cook declared the land he called New South Wales to be the property of Britain’s…

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu must be considered a 'great' Australian historical figure because of his great achievements to Australian music and for his musical ability to overshadow cultural boundaries/borders. Through examining his achievements, background and legacy it becomes clear how he has impacted Australia's music history and Australia. This information confirms what I had already known about Geoffrey Gurrumul Yuppingu. Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunpingu's background has impacted him immensely…

Australian Poetry: Indifference Opposed Through the use of poems, poets show emotions, feelings and or events through the use of language choices to create representations of issues. The poem The new true anthem by Kevin Gilbert is challenging the key values and beliefs through society. This essay is aimed towards interested graduating students and how the cultural ideologies are seen through patriotism and political views that occur throughout the poem. The first known date of The new true…

This essay has two different parts, the chosen event and aspect will be about Indigenous Australian history of Stolen Generation. It will have answers to, What is Stolen Generation? why have Indigenous children been removed from their families? Also by analysing the nature of the effects and impacts of the event in practice of Indigenous Australians. Children from the Indigenous Australian background has been through so much traumatic events, that educators must have an understanding of these…

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…

Aboriginal individuals have kept up and built up a rich old stories fixated on spirits and apparitions. While the Australian anthropological writing recognizes the critical religious measurements of Creation myths, investigations of the secularized old stories of indigenous groups living in country and urban territories have been to a great extent dismissed. This paper researches the parts of Australian Aboriginal mythology in late indigenous and non-indigenous societies inside mild Australia.…

the false beliefs, therefore leading to the self-fulfilling prophecy (Madon, Willard, Guyll, & Scherr, 2011). There are many negatives beliefs regarding Indigenous Australians at both a personal level and an institutional level. At a personal level, some studies show that some non-Indigenous people believe that Indigenous Australians drink more, receive more benefits for less and even outrageously that they are less hygienic, akin to animals in the sense of hygiene (Pedersen, Clarke, Dudgeon, &…

and the effect this had on the Indigenous people. Research shows that colonisation impacted both Aboriginal Australian people and Torres Strait Islander people in ways which changed their cultural landscape significantly. It will be argued in the second half of this essay that the differences experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people…