Culture of Australia

Australia was once an undiscovered island inhabited by Australian Indigenous natives. That was before white settlement in 1788. For middle school students at Kimberley College, the unit for this term has been about the hidden Indigenous history and reconciliation. We studied the book, Deadly Unna? and its connection and relevance to young men and women of Australia. We studied the mockumentary BabaKiueria to help us step into the shoes of an Indigenous Australian and help in the understanding of…

Interestingly, the convict origins of mateship perhaps explain some of the political maneuvers it later developed. The celebration of mateship is no more promoted than the various unionists and movements around Australia, in the past and indeed the present. Mateship can be seen to be used in the Union movements against government and business’ trying to weaken their authority, an idea of which draws many parallels to the convicts that suffered but banded together under the strain of authorities…

When the British decided to migrate to Australia they had a precise idea that no one had taken ownership on the land that they had settled on and therefore declared the land Terra Nullius which means that the land did not belong to anyone. But in fact it did and there were already people who had claimed ownership of the land and were already living and breeding, through there own culture and ways on the estate, they were the aboriginal people. One of the major issues regarding Terra Nullius came…

INTRODUCTION This assignment demonstrates the health grade, cultural beliefs, norms and issues disturbing the well-being status of refugees in Australia. The people who live outside from their country of nationality or away from their routine habitation are known as refugees (Karlsen, E. 2011). They came from different countries, cultures, customs and languages, so they experience various difficulties while interacting with indigenous people of that land and results in deprivation of…

One of the things that caught my attention during this week was a type of documentary about The Stolen Generation, where many indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families as a result of various government policies in Australia. Thus, in this documentary or kind of film called Rabbit Proof Fence is possible to come up with the concept of Transculturation. I didn't know nothing about Australian's history so this is very interesting for me; when I watched Rabbit proof fence, I…

in Australia that we need to wake up to: the crime of various types committed by refugees have been increasing at an alarming rate where about 20 cases of sexual assault occur every single day. Most refugees are not self-sufficient and have low levels of education, as such this forces the Australian government to spend tremendous amounts of money on medicare, tens of millions in funding on education and at the same time, our human resources are diminished. We are clearly…

members, which has created the dislocation of so many of their family members to other cities in Australia. The essentials of South Sudanese culture, language and South Sudanese experience as refugees in settlement have also been discussed concisely. The research has reviewed in order to highlight the effects of trauma, stress and frustration from war zone alteration and to show how resettlement in Australia has affected the refugees. This discussion was followed by the theory of…

AUSTRALIA RULES? MAYBE NOT. Mykayla Bennett discusses the strong parallels between the film “Australian Rules” and contemporary Australian society. R acism. Sexism. Domestic violence. Yes, those are themes from the 2002 film “Australian Rules”, but they are also issues within Australia’s modern and self-perceived multicultural and equitable nation. The film “Australian Rules” (directed by Paul Goodman) is an astonishingly truthful portrayal of Australian identity. Through Goodman’s use of…

separate British colonies on the Australian continent to come together as one. The union of these six colonies was named the Federation of Australia. White Australian men envisioned that the new Australia would be a white man’s paradise, and so race was one of their core considerations during the writing of the Australian Constitution. The separate colonies of Australia were founded on principles of racial discrimination and white unity and thus it is no surprise that these same principles…

South Africa and Australia are two of the countries that lived Aboriginal and occupied by European settlement. South Africa Aboriginals’ treatment is so different from Australia Aboriginals. Moreover, the role of these settlements and the purpose for these settlements are different, too. However, both South Africa and Australia Aboriginals had conflict with settlements and settlement brought and spread serious disease in both country. Australia was occupied by British hundreds of years ago. The…