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Indigenous Housing: A Study of Australian Aboriginal Homes Dome or egg shaped shelters are a traditional construction method seen in Australian Aboriginal settlements. The permanent buildings were better constructed with mud and grass used to waterproof the walls and roofs. Many of the houses had walls made of stone with clay infill incorporated to minimize flooding and leaking. The dome shaped form of the Aboriginal stone engineering was considered very warm during colder times of the year.…

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, &…

Introduction What is the definition of an Indigenous person? There are many mixed opinions on which term should be formally used. Indigenous or Aboriginal they both formally apply to the same groups of people which is defined as “Descendants of the original inhabitants of North America. The Canadian Constitution recognizes three groups of Aboriginal people Indians, Métis and Inuit. These are three separate peoples with unique heritages, languages, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs”…

On 13 February 2008, the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, delivered his apology to the Stolen Generations on behalf of the parliament. This is considered as an important point in current Australian history as it revise the past which would influence the relations between Australian groups in present and future. (Nobles, 2008).In order to understand how he tried to create an imagined community in his speech, I will analyse the apology on two faces: rhetoric and content. Firstly, I will point…

Australian indigenous people lived on this land for up to 60,000 years before Europe discovered the country and claimed settlement. The ingenious people lived their own lives, spoke their own language and had their own lifestyle. They believed they belonged to the land. They lived semi nomadic lifestyles traveling seasonally letting their previous land to re-flourish. This all changed in 1788 when the British claimed settlement. Australian indigenous people could no longer live the way they knew…

it compares the wealth of white Australia to the living conditions of the original landowners. The main purpose of the documentary is to get viewers to feel empathy for the Aboriginal people, shame for being a white Australian who ignores their issues, and anger towards the Australian government for not providing the assistance needed. Pilger uses a wide range of persuasive techniques to evoke a reaction from the viewers, including the use of emotive language, images, tone and bias. The opening…

with respect to life expectancy, child mortality, access to early childhood education, educational achievement, and employment outcomes in order to reduce and eliminate disparities between western demographic groups with indigenous populations (Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet,…

With a population of 5049, Woolloongabba sits on the 63 percentiles in socio-economic status, in which is higher than the averages of both Queensland and Australia alone, 51-53 percentile. In terms of the Indigenous population, 1.2% of Woolloongabba's population is Indigenous. AS of the 2016 census, there are 21.21 people situated in one hectare. Dominant age groups within this suburb include 25-34-year-olds (29%) and over 60 years old with a percentage of 11.5%. Citizens living in this suburb…

Introduction Or this structural critique, I have chosen three articles which tie together some key course themes, in an attempt to have a deeper exploration of the ideas they present. Barry Morris’ “Frontier colonialism as a culture of terror” explores the often-difficult relationship between the settler and the indigenous inhabitants, by examining the fictional realities and “otherness” created around the Aboriginal people by the settlers. Secondly, Russell McGregor’s “Assimilationists Contest…

The present part of the exhibition will focus on how the Aborigines have dealt with those effects of the Stolen Generations while working to fit in with white communities in the present day society of Australia. This relates to the development of Australian contemporary art because all of the artists that were selected for the exhibition are Aboriginal photographers. These photographers choose to document different aspects…