History of Australia

My essay will be about nation-building in Australia. I have chosen the holiday Anzac Day and the infamous outlaw Ned Kelly. Both of these symbols seek to emphasize the Australian identity of toughness, and unity but have been catered to specific purposes. In this, essay I attempt to discover how these symbols became so central to Australia, and how historically accurate they are. Anzac Day has become essentially Australian Day. The day allows for Australians to come together and celebrate as a…

Australian’s traditional narrative of the colonisation of Australia has been long founded on the European coloniser’s stories alone. Excluding the Aboriginal voice and views of the colonisation of their land. Recent texts such as The Secret River, have been produced to disrupt this traditional ideology and contributed to the undermining of these traditional ideas of colonialism. These texts can be interpreted and read in a number of different ways. The Secret River, a postcolonial novel, by Kate…

the implications of colonialism on the shaping of space within Modernity. Discussing the various influences on Modernity, Penelope Edmonds explores the impact of Indigenous culture and history on colonialism and its impact on the development of the ‘new world’ of Melbourne. Similarly Sibel Bozdogan commends history and culture and its important role in influencing modern architecture. However Bozdogan also expresses the postcolonial criticism of modernity being wrongfully overpowering over its…

19% of Australia’s population. Melbourne is the second largest city in Australia and is also the capital city of Victoria. Melbourne is also the most livable city in the world. BIBLIOGRAPHY https://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/history-of-melbourne-581#.Wqub4OQUnIU https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/melbourne-most-livable-city/index.html http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/about-melbourne/melbourne-heritage/history/Pages/history.aspx…

Embedding indigenous perspectives in curriculum usually goes beyond the subject matter. Aboriginal curriculum content denotes the obligatory components within the history part of the Australian Curriculum. This may encompass comprehending the current issues that the indigenous people experience which may be influenced by the past government strategies. It as well involves recognizing the implications and differences of the different Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ethnicities. A strong…

Accordingly, the restorative work in question operates only at the epistemological level. That is, it affects the ques - tion of how white Australia presents itself and how this self-presentation must be received. The restorative work can - not address the question of how white Australia is in relation to the land given that Indigenous dispossession has given rise to a white Australian collective that, as we suggested, has lost the integrity of its being, its ontological power for…

The Mabo vs State of Queensland was one of the most influential and historical decisions ever in the history of land laws in Australia. In this Landmark decision by the Australian High Court the rights of the native people were recognized for the first time. It effectively overturned the doctrine of “terra nullis” infavor of the common law doctrine of Aboriginal title, and overruled Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd (1971), anopposing decision of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. The Murray…

plains to share" has stayed there for decades, but what and how do we Australians respond? In December 2013, Tony Abbott promised that they will stop accepting boat people into Australia. Leaving in public outrage, especially in a time of mass Syrian migration, but what positive cause has occurred after the end of Australia generosity. A stabilized population? Small increase in the GDA Capita? Or maybe a decrease in Australian Crime rate? But at what cost however? To stop people going through…

times, the holiday of ‘Australia Day’ has been a cause of tension between white Australians and the Indigenous population, as our nation’s first people are often disregarded in the celebrations of our country. Amy McGuire wrote an article centred around this debate on the 27th of January 2014, titled “Australia Day: Indigenous people are told to ‘get over it’. It’s impossible”. McGuire’s contention is that the Indigenous population deserves better recognition on Australia Day, and she wrote in a…

the Stolen Generations impacted upon Indigenous Australians to a fundamental extent, causing everlasting pain, trauma and devastation. This essay will explore the implementation of this policy and the subsequent impact on the Indigenous people of Australia, as well as the government’s attempt to reconcile with those who have endured such hardship. The implementation of the Assimilation policy was adopted at Aboriginal Welfare Conference of commonwealth and state…