Australian Open

The most common contemporary impact of other Cultures on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures is people having a lack of knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their culture, or their backgrounds. Being familiar with their behaviours, their history and their connection and relationships between people, their land and their culture is important in order to better communicate and work with and/or alongside them. It is important to acknowledge that…

The book opens with rather extreme views/ claims on the post 9/11 multicultural debates. This book expands on the ideas that the management of foreigners, and regulation with land in Canada should be the responsibility of the white man. It seems the poem by British…

What I have learned throughout the course is that the foundation of all Aboriginal traditions, societal practices, and customs are the various Aboriginal languages and knowledge. Despite the constitutional reform in Canadian society, Aboriginal languages and knowledge are not yet blossoming in our current education systems. Canadian education systems have not been able to empower Aboriginal language and traditions; instead, they are largely excluded in most Canadian educational systems, although…

followed closely by the Sydney Opera House, Australian Convict sites, the Blue Mountain region and Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. This evidence and basic knowledge of Australia is relatively simple to find, however the Australian identity is not simple to capture. The Australian identity has been stereotyped beyond recognition, numerous countries trust kangaroos are galloped to work, and that Fosters is the only beer drunk in Australia, and Australians have wrestling matches with crocodiles.…

9 Theme 3: The Impact of Racism on Indigenous Health Health among human populations is a multifaceted and complex phenomenon, and this is no less so for Indigenous peoples. For Indigenous peoples, unlike white Australians and Pākehā New Zealanders, racism is a fundamental driver of health. Pathways from racism to ill-health may include: reduced and unequal access to the societal resources required for health (e.g. employment, education, • housing, medical care, social…

Health disadvantages experienced by Indigenous Australians are considered to be historical in origin, but the endurance of the disadvantages can be put down to the modern structural and social factors, embodied in what have being termed the ‘social determinants of health’. Indigenous Australians experiences a greater rate of health problems and worse health outcomes then the non-Indigenous community. For non-Indigenous Australians the important social determinants of health are feeling safe,…

and unreliable. It is quite apparent that she comes from a point of view that is suggesting that people do not take discrimination against Aboriginal people and their culture seriously, we can further judge that this is because bigotry against the Australian natives is so common and often overlooked. Also, media frequently victimizes the minority in failing attempts to show support; this occurred in a cover titled ‘Stand with Us’ from the Herald Sun. It came off as an attempt to prove that the…

strong historical with Europe and the USA make this quite challenging. Therefore as a country we are torn between leaving the West for the East. I also found it interesting how the concept of Asia is like talking about another world. I think many Australians consider the Asian lifestyle to be inferior and that Asia is still quite behind the west in ‘life style’. I also think that there is a fear of Asia having power over the rest of the world. No living human alive has been a part of world that…

Amelia M. Paget’s People of the Plains is an insightful exploration of Indigenous culture on the plains of Canada during the early twentieth century. Paget, having grown up immersed in the culture of the fur trade, was able to communicate with the Elders of the bands she interviewed in a respectful and comprehensive way. Her attention to detail unquestionably shows in People of the Plains. This is proven to be true, as Sarah Carter stresses in the Introduction that Paget went to great lengths to…

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. This is ABC Radio National. I am Sorakthun Ly, running literature exploration of the week. This week’s theme of our literature analysis is oppression. We have chosen to discuss this topic because media often portrays issues in a distorted way and based on one-sided perspectives. The aim of this dissection is to divulge the way in which oppression is represented in the novel, and how language and plots are manipulated to shape the picture of oppression. The…