Australian photographers

Bangarra Dance Theatre’s phenomenon entitled Mathinna entails the awe-spiring, yet historically enlightening journey of an Aboriginal girl who was taken from her home and forced to conform to the westernised norms of the 1800’s. In an era plagued by racism and prejudice, Mathinna emanates the themes of colonialism, and cultural intolerance. Following the viewing of this scintillating production, it is undeniably clear that the architect of Mathinna, Stephen Page, has deliberately intended to…

700 tribes. In 1921, the Aboriginal population was at its lowest level so far with around 60,000 people. After that, they started to recover and increase again in number (Prentis, 2008). However, still today they make up less than 3% of the entire Australian population. With the drastic decline of the population, there were also fewer elders which…

Hundreds of languages go extinct over the periods of time. One of those being Native American languages, which only about 154 still remain to this day. The Comanche and Arapaho tribes are two of the numerous Native American tribes in Oklahoma and Wyoming. In this essay the author appeals to the reader in order to persuade he/she that Native American Languages need to be saved by using Pathos/emotions, Ethos/ethics, and Logos/logic. Initially in the article, the author begins the appeal by…

A Perspective View of the Native People in the New World Seen by the Eyes of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and John Smith When the first explorers arrived in America from Europe, they encountered many different indigenous peoples of the land. Every pioneer had their own experiences with the native people, varying from educational and boring to threatening and appalling. Many of the meetings became more and more intense as interactions between the explorers and natives became recurrent. These…

Hey, are you Filo? Are you Vietnamese? Are you Australian? Well, Australia is known for their diverse multi-cultural aspect, but was it always an inclusive country? Good morning everyone and welcome to the Australia Day Film Festival, which I am very thrilled to commence today in sunny Brisbane. Australia is a major heritage site for the aboriginals due to them being the traditional owners of the land, where they formed their traditional culture along with developing a contemporary culture of…

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.…

and can even trigger many debates amongst states. There are many different people living in Australia, all with their own identities and individual use of Australian English. It is important to highlight these differences and identities by celebrating the fact that Australians from various states and territories use their own form of Australian English, rather than creating a national identity which instead does not bring out these differences. By…

Kenneth Bonner, an English migrant, and his wife Julia who was Aboriginal. (Click) Growing up, he had almost no formal education and worked as a farm labourer before settling on Palm Island, Queensland in 1946. (Click) He was the first Indigenous Australian to become a member of the Parliament of Australia in 1971. (Click) Initially, Bonner was appointed by the Queensland Parliament to fill a vacancy in the Senate and later was elected to the parliament by popular vote. How were they called?…

The Australian flag debate is an interrupted enquiry over whether the Australian flag should be changed, particularly to eliminate the Union Jack from the canton, but to perhaps introduce a completely new design without the Southern Cross. John Blaxland who approves a proposal for a new mature Australian flag, agrees that the flag should be changed. Although there is a lot of controversy around this argument. For example Allan Pidgeon argues that Australia should change its flag. However some…

When explaining the disproportionate over-representation and the incarceration of Aboriginal peoples in the criminal justice system, there are several theories and factors to consider. For several decades, the Criminal Justice System has mistreated Aboriginal peoples in numerous ways, subjecting them to racial profiling, unethical racialization and erroneous incineration. In order to help prevent such things from continuing, understanding is key. Thorsten Sellin’s culture conflict theory sheds…