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Technology development have lead to a globalise world which citizens are more connected that ever before in human history. Affordability of physical movements and availability of online transmission means that information and resources are now highly mobile, and that individuals need to now complete with people from all over the world. To prepare students for entering this highly competitive society as competent global citizens, it is crucial for educators to implement comprehensive global…

notifies the reader that the story is observed from an Indigenous perspective. The native numbats and their constant futility against the invading rabbits serves as an allegorical representation of the Indigenous Australian’s plight during colonial-era Australia. This divide between animals shows the quintessential difference between the values of the Indigenous inhabitants of spirituality and one’s connection to the land and culture versus that of the imposing and brutalist nature of the…

Torres Strait Islands are located between Australia and Papua New Guinea. There have been Torres Strait Islanders as one of the Australian Indigenous group. As another Australian Indigenous group, Aborigines, had been invaded and colonised their land, culture, and life from the eighteenth century, Torres Strait people also had similar, but different experiences through the history. For example, while Aboriginal people’s land settled by the British convicts from the 1788 of the First Fleet,…

indigenous Australians. Commonwealth and interstate governments’ actions to help indigenous are also discussed. 1.3 Definition According to Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and Thesaurus (2016), indigenous is defined as “natural existing in a place or country rather than arriving from another place”. 1.4 Thesis Statement Health and housing of indigenous Australians are backward and need to be improved immediately. Australian government has agreed to six ambitious targets to solve…

In the case of Australian context, it should be noted that Australia represents a federation of eight States and Territories and, based on the constitution, they are eligible to design and implement their own curricula. However, in 2008, the Melbourne Declaration announced the development of the common national curriculum…

happen to Uluru in future years. The landform that I am researching and investigating is Uluru. Uluru is the most iconic natural landform in Australia and the formation of Uluru is just as amazing. Uluru was named “Ayers Rock” by Europeans in 1873 when William Gosse gave it its title after Sir Henry Ayers, the Chief Secretary of South Australia at the time. The red colour of Uluru…

being forced from their land and traditional way of life as a result of government policies such as “Protection and Assimilation”. Aboriginal spirituality is a culture and a way of life, so this separation of Aboriginal people from their land and kinship groups has had a severely detrimental impact on their spirituality, and subsequently their culture and identity. A quote by Noel Pearson in the book Voices of Aboriginal Australia: past, present, future compiled by Irene Moores for the…

factors. The ways that Indigenous Australians are affected by “social disadvantages” (Dobia & O’Rourke, 2011) vary, however, they continue to include major contributing stress factors such as “employment, education, and income” (Commonwealth of Australia, 2007); thus resulting in severe behavioural issues, including increased alcohol consumption, physical abuse, and violent behaviours in general. Experiencing social disadvantage affects these young students’…

This results in trauma. Although trauma is not directly responsible for socio-economic status it does relate in that the result of this trauma, and now refugee status, the child is now reliant on charity or government payments to survive, therefore they do have the low socio-economic status (REFERENCE ****). Many layers of challenges are presented to children who fall under the umbrella of this status and that of educational inequality. Trauma, poverty, language…

them into white Australian culture, this is now known as “The Stolen Generation(s)” (Kennedy, 2011, p.333). This happened to an estimated one in three to one in ten Indigenous Australian children and then sent to organisations run by churches or government missions (Atkinson, 2005, p.73). This review will discuss the effects on the Stolen Generations on Indigenous children, in relation to their wellbeing and personal growth. Individually the Stolen Generations impacted Indigenous children…