Indigenous Australian languages

that belonging is considered a fundamental aspect of being human, that belonging is an ambiguous concept which can offer individuals a sense of identity, security and partnership, and that these idea of belonging have played a significant role in Australian lives for years? From Polish migrants in the 1950s to aborigines over the last hundred years, millions of poets have chosen this concept as a foundation to their work. In fact, one of these poets is a very important aboriginal voice; Oodgeroo…

Nowadays, for Aboriginal Culture to still be known as an important part of Australia’s cultural heritage it is vital that children from a young age are thoroughly educated on this significant part of Australian history. The book “Maybe Tomorrow” narrated by Boori Pryor with Meme McDonald is recognised as a powerful and moving text that tells the the incredible story of an Aboriginal male growing up in the 1950’s where white culture was dominant. This book in detail explains the high and lows,…

colonialists in Australia had massive impact to the local indigenous people mainly the Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders. Prior to the arrival of the colonialists, the indigenous people had distinct cultural beliefs and practice especially the value of family ties. The main source of food was hunting and gathering for the Aboriginals and fishing for the Torres Strait Islanders where clans hunted and gathered as a team for their families. The indigenous people also owned land and property.…

A negative social attitude towards the Aboriginal communities is still prevalent today. Racism towards ATSI people is widespread in the Australian community. Individuals who have experienced discrimination need to be treated with understanding and respect. This will need to be reinforced whist working together to collaborate culturally relevant ways to bridge the gap. Until social attitudes are addressed it will impact professional relationships when delivering services and programs. Employment…

if they had made more of an effort to engage with them. In our current time, many people agree and believe that the way the British handled the colonisation of Australia was wrong and disrespectful. In 2008, the Australian Prime Minister at the time Kevin Rudd apologised to all indigenous people for the actions we had taken upon them from the First Fleet to the time he was reading the speech. He quoted “We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those stolen Generations- this blemished…

Thought the speech the language used by Kevin Rudd talks of our nation as a community The sorry speech uses language to empower the Aboriginal Australians successfully. Seven times the word sorry was repeated to emphasise the used to apologise of the pain, suffering and hurt of the Stolen Generation. Many other words used to display the and elaborate of pain and hurt Sorry may just be a word, but it should help the history of our past come back into our curriculum for the current generation…

connections or a source of conflict.” Henry Lawson, an Australian author, employs extensive imagery to create an Australian story. His writing engages the audience with the elements of Australia and narratives of surviving in the relentless and inhospitable environment. In order to co-exist with the nature, individuals may have to surrender their identity as well as luxuries, to develop protection against the relentlessness of the Australian outback. In The Drover’s Wife and In a Dry Season,…

This essay will discuss the ways in which the 1986 Australian play Away, by Michael Gow, expresses the concepts of family conflict, grief and loss, and what it means to be an outsider. These concepts will evidently help in answering whether Away is still able to speak to modern Australian audiences. Despite historical references the play still speaks to a modern Australian audience. Gow has used a variety of literary techniques to develop his play such as allusions, colloquial, as well as using…

Aboriginal people. The land isn’t just soil or rocks or minerals, but a whole environment that sustains and is sustained by Aboriginal people and their culture. For Indigenous Australians, the land is the core of all spirituality and this relationship and the spirit of 'country' (land) is central to the issues that are important to Indigenous people today. Aboriginals are very attached to the land they live on, because they believe that their ancestors created the land in the Dreamtime. Every…

happiness in life at times where their most vulnerable and suffering. The indigenous practice the idea that in life, everything is interconnected through an animistic belief. The plants, landforms, animals, human and any extraterrestrial beings are all connected through spirit. Like many other religions aboriginal spirituality believes that before time itself it was the supernatural that created it (Grieves, V. 2009). The indigenous believe strongly in Cosmogony. This is their ‘dreamtime’…