Indigenous Australians

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…

What would your challenges be in doing this? Is it fair to suggest Indigenous people do this? Why? If I was asked to return to living the way my great-grandparents did I would immediately so no. A lot of technological and medical advancements have been made since that time and I would be unable to benefit from these. I would…

Blog: Critical Reflection During the time of the European invasion of Australia, many of the events that occurred have left a lasting impact on the Indigenous people in Australia and have made me feel quite astounded as to how a group of people could treat anyone in that manner (Axelsson et al. 2016, pp. 1-7). It is extremely important in our nursing practice to be able to examine and understand what has happened in the past and critically reason how this information can help us improve on our…

recent Australian articles on racism, White Australian people who are the dominant people in Australia have been favored by the government in many ways. Discrimination of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Slanders by the White Australians are of different forms. Institutional racism is one form of racism that is evident in Australia. It occurs when a co¬¬¬¬¬¬¬mpany or a government body exercise racism on an individual or a group of people. For instance, the refusal of the South Australian…

The deposition of indigenous peoples across the globe through colonisation has informed interactions between indigenous and non-indigenous for centuries. Colonisation occurred for varying reasons from nation to nation and person to person however the outcome for the Indigenous people were similar in many ways. This essay will attempt to explain some of the reasons for colonisation occurring and the effect this had on the Indigenous people. Research shows that colonisation impacted both…

Indigenous Australian hip-hop has since 1982, according to Mitchell (2006), been used to educate indigenous youth on their cultural history, and to form and explore a cultural identity and “get in touch with traditional aspects” of this identity. This form of expression also taps into the roots of hip-hop, as it also focuses on allowing indigenous youth, and the indigenous hip-hop community, according to Mitchell (2006) to express “anger…

Indigenous Australians and their identities are a reflection of Australian history. The Aboriginals culture, connection with nature and traditions shape Australian society and shape a great love and respect for the land. Doris Pilkington’s Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence (1996) is a non-fiction biographic text. With the use of emotive language and primary sources, Doris Pilkington explains about the Indigenous Australian’s identities pre colonisation, during colonisation, and post colonisation.…

retelling of Australia’s dark history to include the injustices inflicted on the marginalized Indigenous populations by their colonial oppressors. Our tour began atop a ledge over looking the bodies of water (Hawkesbury River, Pittwater and Cowan Water) that suround the National Park. Image one represents one of the many points of entry utilized by European settlers to gain access to the vast Australian landscape. Australia was once believed to be uninhabited prior to the arrival of the first…

Australia Policy, She said’ White Australia Policy of course does exist, today, 2014, make no mistake about, I live with a real discrimination, I live with hatrust of my colour because I am the first Australian….” (Kunoth-Monks, R 2014). The feature of colonialism in Australian History for Indigenous people are marginalised, discriminated, unjust and dehumanized. Nowadays, in the era of self-determination, the shadow of colonialism feature are in a contemporary modern way existing. The…

Stan Grant. An indigenous journalist who travelled to all the nooks and corners of the world, stands up to talk about the Australian dream which was built on racism and discrimination of their people.In the article, I saw a man of Australia arguing strongly that the Australian dream is not for all. He upholds his stand by stating the obvious racism and discrimination toward the aboriginal people of Australia. A group of ethnically diverse people who were eliminated and isolated by people of…