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unique but dark past when it comes to its colonial history. Remnants of this past still linger as significant problems for the modern era. These problems expose themselves in many aspects of the Australian culture such as politics, social ques, and art. If a foreigner, such as myself, takes a look at Australian art, I take it in at face value. It would take lots of research to determine any cultural undertones. When I first gazed upon William Strutt’s painting “Black Thursday” I thought that it…

Although the term is highly contested in contemporary discourses, ‘terra nullius’ was historically used to defend the justice of colonisation in Australia for the benefit of the European expansion (Fitzmaurice, 2007). It allowed settlers to claim territorial jurisdiction and was ultimately responsible for the dispossession of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living on the land now known as Australia (Prokhovnik, 2015). The political ideology during federation revolved around…

In the work represented by Gordon Bennet and Michele Ray Charles through their work they demonstrate behavioural and personal characteristics by which they recognise them as an individual. Their work demonstrated their cultural identity as this is influenced by background and feeling of identity of a group or culture. As their values, beliefs and perspective that effects in their relationships and customs. Additionally, thought the historical influence and experience in society. Gordon Bennet…

Aboriginals aswell as all Australians, A national hero to all. Born on the 21st of June 1948 he was raised in a society that was divided by racism, doubt and economic disparity or difference. For Aboriginals their struggle to gain social justice had been ongoing since 1770. Lionel lived in a poor aboriginal settlement South of Melbourne in Jacksons Track, Near Warragul he had the ambition to get away and make something of himself and so he did and became a huge significance to…

Australia’s highest honour, in 2009. After Faith Bandler’s death on the 13th of February 2015, the former Prime Minister Tony Abbott offers her family a state funeral saying ‘Our country has lost a champion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians’ . Opposition Indigenous Affairs spokesman Shanye Neumann and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said in a joint statement, ‘Her legacy lives on in our journey toward the constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…

What do Australians stand for? Is it that all Muslims should go back to their home country because they are terrorists? Or that equality is an important part of our country and something that we should strive for? I believe that a reasonable percentage of Americans would agree with the first one but here in Australia we strive for a country with equality. To get equality I believe justice, culture and opportunity are a part of what Australians stand for and a first step to equality, you don’t…

The Impact of Residential Schools Residential schools were made to kill the Indian in the child claiming to make Canada a better place. The Government of Canada thought that the residential schools would help the Native families, but the way the children were treated and kept at the schools the Aboriginal culture is still suffering from the violence and abuse. Aboriginal parents don’t know how to treat their children because of their experience from Residential Schools; the violence was passed…

to an area overlapping the Wik claim included land where two leases had been issued by the Qld government. The wik people had to prove through historical documents that they deserved rights to the land.The case went in favour of the Indigenous Australians and was also a great advance in the land rights movement.But they weren 't trying to keep the people off their land they just wanted the government to know it 's their land therefore they aren 't in charge of the land the wik decisions was a…

Indigenous Studies 100 is a course that serves important knowledge to any university student in Canada. This is a course that deals with contemporary issues and our history as a country. It is of equal importance to other classes that are mandatory throughout our lives in university. This essay will discuss the importance of a mandatory Indigenous Studies 100 course. In this paper I will attempt to explain why the issues and history that have happened, or are currently happening in our country…

Pregnancy and birth Close the gap: Indigenous Health Campaign (Australian Human Rights Commission 2016) National Maternity Services Capability Framework (Standing Council on Health and Community & Disability Services 2012) National Maternity Services Plan (Australian Health Ministers’ Conference 2010) National Evidence-Based Antenatal Care Guidelines (National Health and Medical Research Council 2011) The Close the Gap campaign is a strategy that was made by several organisations to achieve…