Languages of Australia

Australian politics. The shift from ‘White Australia’ to ‘Multicultural Australia’ occurred during the 1960s-2000’s. Positive progression of political and civil attitudes towards minority out-groups – from race-based exclusion to State espoused multiculturalism – gradually transpired. The Aliens Act Repeal Act of (1987) repealed the Aliens Act 1947. However, this progression appears to have only occurred as immigrant communities demanded social equality; that Australia maintain a plurality of…

3. Australia's Immigration Policy Australia is a traditional immigrant state as the country was established by British immigration since 1788. Australia is one of the fastest population growing countries in the OECD member and about 58% of the population increase is attributable to net immigrants(Hugo, 2014). Establishment of the Department of Immigration in 1945, Australia's immigration policy became government-driven(Hugo, 2014). Australia induced the influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe…

prevalent in Australia can be supported by a rapid changing multicultural Australia. Through an examination of Linda Ng’s review Dead Europe and the coming of age in Australian literature: Globalisation, cosmopolitanism and perversity, the binary relationship between Europe and Australia will be looked at with a focus on ‘Cosmopolitism’. Alongside,…

Cartoon Language Analysis The cartoon I have chosen to do is The Lifeguard. It was created by artist Mark Knight. Mark Knight published this cartoon in the Herald Sun on 22 January 2014. The issue explored in this cartoon is the lifeguard’s statement on the impact of the manufacturers that will not be rescued by the government. The artist contends to the audience that the cut down of carbon would benefit manufacturers to be considerable. Moreover, the cut down of carbon would help their…

song I am Australia, which encourages diversity acceptance by inviting people to affirm, along with the many, their national Australian identity (Lawrence, Brooker, and Goodnow, 2012, P. 74). The cultural diversity of Australia’s population is on the rise. In 2015, the Australian bureau of statistics (2016) confirmed Australia’s cultural stance by identifying that an estimated 28 per cent of Australia’s occupants were born overseas. Collectively these 6.4 million residents settled in Australia…

will analyse the poem ‘Australia’ by Australian poet A.D. Hope. It will explore the underlying message of the poem in terms of Australian culture or lack thereof, as well as the ideas of patriotism and shame. This essay will also draw attention to the slight racist undertones of the poem. In the first stanza of the poem, Hope describes Australia as a "Nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey" that "Darkens her hills". By this description it would seem that he sees Australia as a country…

complicated interrelation of social, economic and cultural factors (Graham, 2003). Indigenous Australians have had many causes for the marginalisation, this includes; being invaded and evicted from their land and homes when western culture first came to Australia, their underrepresentation on society and the stolen generation from 1910 until 1970 (Pike, 2011). The close the gap 2017 report reveals the successes achieved by the government, individuals, organisations and communities across the…

The divergence in educational outcomes in the Northern Territory 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…

aboriginals, about how they were treated when the white settled? This song, Solid Rock, by Goanna, was published for a reason. They make people think about what happened the indigenous when the English came to Australia. The author of the song, Shane Howard, uses strong, influencing language to represent the indigenous and describe what happened to them. The vocabulary includes sting, darkness and gun. All of these words are of insecurity. The indigenous, back in the 1800s and early 1900s, as…

Q. 1 Write about 3 lines for each of the following about the significance for Indigenous Land Rights in Australia: (a) “Terra nullius” Terra Nullius means that land without. When Captain Cook and his crew was in Australia , they decided the land was Terra Nullius. They acknowledge Indigenous people because of their primitive life. The High Court's Mabo judgement overturned the Terra Nullius fiction in 1982. (b) Protective legislation Victoria enacted Aboriginal protection act. This act…