Australian English

Chapter One Introduction 1.1 Background of the study In 1788, about 1530 British people arrived at Australia as penal transportation, and for the next 80 years, about 16 million people moved into Australia and established penal colony. The following paragraph indicates what happened in Australia as a first step of a colonial domination. The rabbits are the British, who came there with purpose of establishing a new penal colony to supplant the America. Actually, there were Aborigines inhabiting…

contexts. Due to the diversity of cultures, the rules are not standard, yet instead they are diverse for each language. As an example, a German speaker may intonate on certain words making their speech come across as aggressive in comparison to an Australian who may intonate numerous times through a sentence, therefore appearing enthusiastic and excitable. This knowledge of language difference is necessary as children inherit these traits from their cultural context as their speech begins to…

the Europeans and Australians attitude towards the native landscape. This private letter, titled “From the Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon,” was written by an English naval surgeon George Bouchier Worgan, who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. Written on the 12th June 1788, Worgan’s journal takes the form of a letter, addressed to his brother, Richard, covering the early months of European settlement in New South Wales describing his first impressions of the Australian landscape, their…

But we do know something about Article II (a), "killing members of the group", because the Aborigines, were members of a definable group. We know something about the physical killings, particularly in the latter half of the last and the early part of this century. The first white settlers came to Tasmania in 1803, and by 1806 the serious killing began [26]. In retaliation for the spearing of livestock, Aboriginal children were abducted for use in forced labor, women were raped and tortured and…

and publishers with the same ethnicity and ideals. The alignment of their Fanonic tendencies allows picture books to establish a sense of harmony rather than inner conflict, which will aid the development of an authentic Indigenous voice within Australian children 's picture…

done by focussing on revealing the truth and removing negative myths. I will teach children that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the First Australians and the First Fleet did not discover Australia (Harrison & Sellwood, 2016). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture should be integrated in all learning areas of the Australian Curriculum because it is the culture of Country. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have an intimate relationship with the land, sky and…

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…

• Started May 1st 1946 and ended in 1949 • Hundreds of Aboriginal pastoral workers left their work for better pay and conditions • This caused sheep stations to stop production • Strike was organised with no phones or radios • Longest strike in Australian Hisotry • 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers from 27 stations in Western Australia walked away from their job • Predates the Wave Hill strike in NT by 20 years • Sometimes referred to as “Blackfellas’ Eureka” • Wanted the right to elect their own…

Challenging 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. In order to understand racial bias one must understand what racism is. It will be discussed with regards to what racism is, then it will be outlined what the major factors of racial bias are. Furthermore, the role of ingroups and outgroups and finally…

used in order to substantiate revocation of land from American Indians in the Thirteen States, but used by settlers in New South Wales to contend that the Aborigines were not working the land agriculturally, so they were not considered owners of Australian land. However, Locke’s ideal was an incompatible theory for the Aboriginal way of life, which was a nomadic lifestyle based on hunting, survival and the Dreamtime. In contrast to Locke, Historian Ronald Hill summarized that the Aboriginal…