Indigenous Australians

is required when reading medication labels, understanding instructions, traffic signals and other practices. Commonly, Standard Australian English (SAE) is used as a first language in Australian schools (Hanlen, 2010). However, Standard Australian English is not a first language for Indigenous students and in fact the most common language spoken by Aboriginal Australians is Aboriginal English (AE). Why do we need Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education and how can teachers assist…

concerns for their underprivileged communities of indigenous people. Through informing the communities, supporting, empowering and advocating for Indigenous communities,…

the people and the land, the uncanny and the truthfulness through art . Australian art has been the resurgence of Indigenous culture and its apperception as a major art form . But in a country increasingly divided by class and wealth, the elevate of Indigenous art has had consequences undreamed of by those who first projected it onto the international exhibiting stage. Aboriginal art had a restricted presence in Australian museums in the first a moiety of the twentieth century; on one hand…

my practice and beliefs will inherently shape their cultural understandings. Indigenous students have the right to a high quality education and equal participation and equitability in the classroom. It is my wish that each of my future Indigenous students will be successful and for their learning to be relevant to the Indigenous context. I also wish for my future non-Indigenous students to appreciate and respect Indigenous culture, both locally and nationally. Vygotsky’s Socio-Cultural theory…

In addition to the education inequality, social network effects and unfavourable socioeconomic status in indigenous communities, such like a large proportion of people who are living under poor housing conditions, lack of material resources, education inequities, are the underlying factors of disappointing achievements on educational…

When I asked many of my Asian friends about their impression about Australian people, almost no one thought of Aboriginal people at first. I recalled a friend’s excitement about his first holiday last year down under where his only perception about the Aboriginal people is the boomerang bought from a souvenir shop in Melbourne. Before coming to Australia, my impression about them was limited to black curly hair people living in the outback, boomerang, didgeridoo, traditional dance typically…

have lasted for time immemorial. Without these cultures Australia would be a colourless and bland place to live. The indigenous people of these lands have contributed immensely to the image of an Australian however, rarely have they been acknowledge for harbouring such a rich culture. Indigenous spiritualties and the culture which accompanies it has a strong relationship…

forward for Australia as a nation is to embrace the essence of indigenous cultural renaissance.” Renaissance as described by Dictionary.com is “revival or rebirth especially of culture and learning” (Dictionary.com, 2015). In my paper I will examine indigenous culture and its revival or rebirth by looking at what Indigenous Culture is, its origins, what it means to Aboriginal people and how it is being revived today in the current Australian society. I will start with a quote from Creative…

Northern Territory’s Police Administration Amendment Act 2014 has sparked controversy among members of public and a variety of organizations including Amnesty International and North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency. It amends the Police Administration Act by giving Northern Territory police new powers to detain someone for four hours (or longer if they are intoxicated) if they reasonably believe the person has committed, or is about to commit, an ‘infringement notice offence’ . The new…

Several Government commitments in the past maintain a positive impact on the future Indigenous Australians; however considering the social alienation, cultural exclusion, emotional and environmental disadvantages Indigenous peoples endured in the past what more can be done? To provide an improved educational experience for Indigenous Australians, the relevance of the recommendation brought forward in The Bringing them Home report section 9b. it states ‘all under-graduates and trainees in…