Indigenous Australians

primary and high school between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students has seen the highest illiteracy rates and low performing academia Australia, condensed widely in remote communities. According to the 2016 census, this area had the lowest school completion rate for Indigenous students, with 22%, compared to the Australian Capital Territory and Queensland, which have 57% and 42% (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016). Many teachers currently employed in Indigenous communities in the Northern…

person or how the history of Australia may affect Indigenous Australians. This is largely because the families in the area I resided in were predominantly Non-Indigenous Australians and throughout my schooling years the education on Indigenous Australians I received was limited to tokenistic attributes of the culture. However, after reading the course material, I now know that racism and discrimination has many forms and that Indigenous Australians experience discrimination on a range of levels…

have the same rights and freedoms as non-indigenous Australians. There were many events that contributed to the movement including the Wave Hill Station Walk-off, the 1967 referendum and the Aboriginal Day of Protest and mourning. However the health, social and economic difficulties facing the Aboriginal people are substantial. The reconciliation movement has countered this. Despite the failures regarding the Australian Civil rights movement, there have…

the aboriginal civil rights movement 's political achievements meaning achievements that directly relate to law and legislation, are extremely influential if you recognize where we have come from. In 1901 the white Australia policy excluded indigenous Australians from the vote and pensions. The roots of this policy can be seen all the way back in 1850 with the white miner 's hatred to the Chinese…

Indigenous Sovereignty and the Being of the Occupier 98 unwillingness to recognize asylum seekers’ property-own - ing subjectivity in much the same way that Australian gov - ernments had denied equal treatment before the law to cer - tain classes of immigrants from the 1920s to the 1940s. In the twenty-first century the practice of granting fixed term temporary protection visas to asylum seekers in place of per - manent visas bears the very same mark of rendering a cer - tain class of…

ideologies in the past still continue to have consequences in the lives of copious marginalised races of today. The stage play, No Sugar by Noongar author Jack Davis explores the endemic violence, brought upon by the exhibition of oppression by the White Australian supremacy towards the ostracised Aboriginals. No Sugar is set during the 1930s, a dark time in Australia where abusive treatment towards the Aboriginals was seen as a cultural norm. The context evokes the struggle for the Aboriginals…

laborers and eventually these half-caste children were able to be assimilated into the white society. While the chief protector of Aboriginal Australians A.O. Neville believed that he was helping half-caste children by taking them out of their communities and placing them in settlement camps. The child removals had an adverse affect on both the indigenous…

will be different. For those of white Australian background you think of the stereotypical lifestyle consisting of the sun, waves and mates. However for those of Indigenous background mass genocide and the beginning of the end for your culture is what is thought of on this day. To display this stark contrast I have selected two poems by Australian poets which offer different opinions on the same day and what effect it has on White and Indigenous Australians. My first poem, Australia Day by Mick…

The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Policy (AEP) (Commonwealth of Australia, 1989, p.15) discussed that the long-term goal for schools should be “to enable Aboriginal attainment of skills to the same standard as other Australian students throughout the compulsory schooling years.” Moreover, it called for the “introduction of technology and technology information to assist the development of self-determination through the cultural evaluation for Aboriginal and Torres…

James Cook University of Queensland where he spoke about his people’s beliefs about the ownership and inheritance of the land (Reconciliation Australia, 2014). A lawyer overheard Mabo’s speech and approached Mabo if he would like to challenge the Australian Government in the court system to settle the issue on who are the rightful owners of the Land on Murray Island, Mabo agreed (Reconciliation Australia,). Mabo’s case went on for 10 years (Korff, 2015). On the 3rd of June 1992, The High Court…