Languages of Australia

My family immigrated to Australia fifty years ago. As a Caucasian Australian I have grown up with very little knowledge of Indigenous culture. I have grown up influenced by Dutch traditions and loved being able to celebrate my culture. This influenced my outlook on race positively, as I believe we should all be able to celebrate and share our culture. Australia is a multicultural society, yet we don 't have a living culture. I have learnt about…

AUSTRALIA RULES? MAYBE NOT. Mykayla Bennett discusses the strong parallels between the film “Australian Rules” and contemporary Australian society. R acism. Sexism. Domestic violence. Yes, those are themes from the 2002 film “Australian Rules”, but they are also issues within Australia’s modern and self-perceived multicultural and equitable nation. The film “Australian Rules” (directed by Paul Goodman) is an astonishingly truthful portrayal of Australian identity. Through Goodman’s use of…

denotes how the British colonised Australia through a long, violent endeavour, acting as catalyst behind the Aboriginals loss of land, territory, family, thus extraditing them from their culture alienating them from their inextricable connectedness referred to as Kanyini (Bob Randall, 2006). The main consequences as a result of this dispossession are explored within the Aboriginal charter of rights (1962) as it paid homage loss of identity and kinship ties, rituals, languages, moiety, social…

Indigenous Australians are grossly over-represented in the criminal justice system. However, the true extent of this over-representation differs between individual areas. Despite indigenous Australians only making up two per cent of the population, they accounted for over twenty seven per cent of the total prison population in 2014 (ABS). This high rate of imprisonment is not due to indigenous people being more likely to commit crime than other Australians, but rather indigenous Australians are…

Australia is a country that has been described as diverse, multicultural and unique. Our geography, flora and fauna and cultural history is different from anywhere else, which has definitely captured the attention of the rest of the world. Australian society has evolved in a very short space of time from the earliest convict settlements established in the mid nineteenth century, to the cosmopolitan states that currently exist and draw immigrants from all continents across the globe. Australia’s…

their culture the oldest living race on earth. Throughout the years Indigenous communities within Australia have faced many key events that have affected their lives since European colonisation in 1778. (Timeline)??? Prior to colonisation there were approximately 700 different Aboriginal nations, that contained different communities across the continent. Although many different cultures and languages were used, the tribal groups had particular rules about engaging with others, the rules were…

The acknowledged traditional land owners of my area are the Gurung-Willam-Balluk people of the Wurundjeri tribe of the Kulin nation. History tells us that the Indigenous people roamed our lands long before Captain Cook declared Australia to be ‘terra nullius’ and claimed the land for the British Crown in 1770. It has been documented that prior to the first fleets arrival in 1788 there were 260 Indigenous communities and over 500 different dialects. But with the arrival of the European…

Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) communities throughout Australia prior to 1965. While Protectionism aimed to be a ‘smooth pillow to die on’, the policy of Assimilation culturally mixed the races. Assimilation was a policy implemented by the Australian Government which integrated ATSI into the Australian Society, this policy aimed to make Aboriginals ‘similar’ to white Australians and culturally mixed. As a result, this policy would extend the language, culture, beliefs, clothing and manner of…

Technology development have lead to a globalise world which citizens are more connected that ever before in human history. Affordability of physical movements and availability of online transmission means that information and resources are now highly mobile, and that individuals need to now complete with people from all over the world. To prepare students for entering this highly competitive society as competent global citizens, it is crucial for educators to implement comprehensive global…

Therefore as a result Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are able to "collectively organise themselves to achieve the things that are important to them" (Reconciliation Australia, 2012). By using the models and frameworks of Indigenous governance, the outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders become greatly improved, where else without it they are "hindered and often prevented from achieving their goals, and thus…