Terra nullius

As the barriers between countries becomes an ever increasing blur, the necessity to study language is of the utmost importance in order to fully comprehend contemporary society. The ability to have the skills to use languages enables one to communicate with a wider array of cultures in order to appropriately understand the reasoning behind decisions at both a micro and macro level as well as enabling a far greater understanding of surrounding cultures in order to benefit the society's future at…

The Mabo case refers to the legal action taken upon the commonwealth of Australia outlining Native title, Indigenous Land Rights by activist Eddie Mabo to which was concluded in 1993. The case was stimulated due to the Australian Civil Rights Movement of 1957 - 1973, it refers to the leading fight that was put forward in an attempt to gain rights and recognition of land connection to that of the Indigenous and Torres Strait Islanders. The Mabo Case is a famous story and that of which is…

Boundaries and borders can be physical or symbolic, visible and invisible. These boundaries and borders represent ideas or ideals dependent upon the position of a society in relation to the border. The Open University (2016a, p.175) states boundaries “can have different meanings for, and effects on, different people depending on gender, race, ethnicity, class, age and many other social characteristics”. The construction of borders is often supported by the concept of justice. However just as…

Politics of Indigenous Recognition Analyse the broad shifts that have taken place in Australian society since the end of the Second World War, and how those historical changes have shaped the contemporary nation There has been an abundance of injustices suffered by the original owners of our land which still continue to this day but since WW2, which occurred from 1939-1945, Indigenous Recognition has been one of the rapidly changing important issues in Australian society. Although there has…

THE SENKAKU ISLANDS DISPUTE Overview of the Senkaku Islands Dispute The Senkaku Islands are a series of islands located in the East China Sea that are currently being controlled by Japan They have a total area of about 7 square kilometers and lie north-east of Taiwan, east of the Chinese mainland and south-west of Japan's southern-most prefecture, Okinawa. These islands are considered very important to all three countries due to their close proximity to important shipping lanes, rich grounds…

Topic 1- Acknowledgment to Country and Indigenous Terms of Reference. Acknowledgement to Country is a statement that can be performed in both a formal or informal manner that recognises and respects the traditional landowners of this country and in particular the local region. It can be performed by a non Indigenous person and is delivered before a meeting, speech or formal occasion like a school assembly for example. (QLD Department of Education Training, 2015). This is an important protocol…

Law reform is the act of altering laws to better suit the importance of social values. Laws constantly need to be modified to suit the needs of the society, they cannot remain static. An essential feature of the legal system is to adapt and solve uprising problems. The reforming of law is needed for it to remain relevant and have the support of the general public. Some issues that the Australian legal system has to take into account are; to promote equality, resolve issues, balancing the…

all knowledge about the Aboriginal culture, including research and display, is written by non-indigenous people and dominantly by European scholars. This knowledge is interpretive and constructed by the British settlers after their arrival in ‘Terra Nullius’ in 1788, assuming that indigenous people were too primitive to represent themselves. It was bound to the context and aimed at a specific purpose. In this case, with a purpose to compete with other European rivals and to quench the thirst for…

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are today acknowledged as the owners and custodians of this land we call home, but unfortunately, they have experienced situations that have completely disregarded their basic human rights before they received their rightful title. This essay will look at the history/ background of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in regards to their rights within Australia, analyse certain ethical issues that have occurred when dealing with their rights,…

It has become increasingly unpopular within the academy to think of things through a poststructuralist, multicultural frame in which the myriad of overlapping identities situate a given Being within a particular time and space. Yet, such a structural attempt to think through the problem of Indigeneity and the West might enhance the explanatory power of postcolonial and settler colonial studies of the problem at hand. In light of this, I attempt to explain the way that the Settler and their…