History of Australia

still at a disadvantage in our society, as a matter of fact, they rate as among the most disadvantaged peoples in Australia; so how much of society’s attitudes have really changed? The treatment of the ATSI people is a part of what has shaped contemporary Australia today, our behaviour and actions towards Aboriginal…

prevalent in Australia can be supported by a rapid changing multicultural Australia. Through an examination of Linda Ng’s review Dead Europe and the coming of age in Australian literature: Globalisation, cosmopolitanism and perversity, the binary relationship between Europe and Australia will be looked at with a focus on ‘Cosmopolitism’. Alongside,…

Don’t you Australians sometimes wonder why Australia has not become a republic yet even though some of the biggest countries in the world have? Australia is currently a monarchy, with a de facto head of state that serves the British representatives rather than his own people. As the situation currently stands, the british representatives will always put their country first rather than Australia in different circumstances and rightly so. In order to take the the last step to becoming a fully…

research question of this thesis will be the following: “How can we explain that Australia, historically considered as one of the most open-minded and multicultural countries of the world, applies such a protectionist policy (Operation Sovereign Borders) with regard to asylum seekers?”. The political and cultural analysis that will be investigated around this policy will aim, on the one hand, at discovering if Australia can still be nicknamed the “Land of Tomorrow” for people seeking to get the…

University of Melbourne – Porters Five Forces 1853 When the University of Melbourne (UoM) was established in 1853, there was only one other competitor in Australia, the University of Sydney . However due to the geographical distance between these two competitors, they appealed to different markets, Victorians and New South Welshmen. Hence rivalry within the industry was nonexistent. Therefore rivalry among existing competitors was a minimal force and did not affect tertiary education in 1853.…

Year 11 Food Technology: Module 1: Food Availability and Selection In the late 1800’s, between 1850 to 1890, Australia received its first wave of multiculturalism, introduced through the frenzie of the Gold Rush. Immigrants from China, America and Scandinavia followed the European miners in pursuit of the precious metal. The American immigrants of Australia initialised an increase in food manufacturing and preservation, specifically cordials, jams and sauces. In the realisation that gold mining…

Addressing to the history of which Australian society is built from, Terra Australis was deprived by the Europeans and the British colonies and settlement is an inaccurate description of the establishment of Australia. Historically, the first inhabitants of the Australian land has become a sensitive topic in which there are two perspectives that there is to be judged upon. It is important to analyse and explore the two views to answer and explain the question of whether Australia was invaded or…

in, February-March 1915. The British and French attempted to collision the Divan Empire of Turkey since World War One had begun. Australia’s involvement in WWI was because, Britain was the “Mother country” and Australia was part of the commonwealth and the British Empire, therefore Australia felt compelled to help. In the training period, Australian Soldiers had an opportunity to meet the world, and they equally allowed the world to meet Australians. Australians made a cultural impact on the…

which will go ahead to the start of a federated Australia, the connection of people to their nation and having Victoria become more powerful. I, Hannadi Dabei, believe that his statements are narrow minded and garbage. One of the key reasons to why Australia needs to become federated is because we need a united defense force against other foreign countries, which could better protect Australia. Our immigration laws need to be strengthened, as…

During the year of 1987, the state government of the Queensland region took complete control over the Torres Strait islanders which at the time were situated in the northern district of Australia. The events leading up to this take over therefore contributed to the Mabo versus Queensland state of affairs, also known as the Mabo decision. Although they had been taken away from their main land the Torres Strait Islanders and Aboriginals still…