The West Australian

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Australia is the smallest continent. Most people these days’ associate Kangaroos, and the pop artist, Iggy Azealia to the country. I myself was guilty of that until I had a conversation with someone from the Oceanic country and became enlightened. In order for the employees to enter or leave the Magic Kingdom, they have to get brought in by a company authorized bus, unless you are one of the very few that has been granted gate access. As I sat on the bus, to head back to my car after a long day…

Aboriginal sites are as significant and essential today, as they were thousands of years ago. The sites will continue to play a fundamental role in the lives of Aboriginal people and Western Australian heritage. These places and the grounding beliefs they give expression to, will continue to be of great significance in contemporary social and spiritual life. In conclusion, one has to experience and go through the ways of Noongar traditional customs…

and Fly-In Fly-Out Coordinator is funded by the Australian Government and working with Job Services Australia to implement employment training pathways for job seekers. The Remote Jobs and Communities Program introduce people residing in remote regions for more sustainable and consolidated approach which include a wide range of employment services. (Australian Government, 2012) Moreover, the Queensland Government, in conjunction with the Australian Government, has initiated the Cape York Welfare…

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 Territory are from interstate and “white middle-class urban environments with little little of life in…

people had been before European settlement, which appears to be much better than how they live now. They wouldn’t have access to the same education as non-indigenous Australians. The education given to them in schools would be mostly irrelevant to their traditional lifestyle. The great-grandparents of current Indigenous Australians appear…

discrimination. Aboriginal Australians are especially victims of bias within the courts. In the case Joan Martin vs Homeswest [1997], involved the well respected Aboriginal artist, Joan Martin, and her children being kicked out from her home where they lived for 17 years. Homesweet evicted the family due to neighbours complaints of anti-social behaviour from her mentally-ill son. Her complaint that Homeswest had indirectly discriminated against her family went all the way to the West Australia…

• Started May 1st 1946 and ended in 1949 • Hundreds of Aboriginal pastoral workers left their work for better pay and conditions • This caused sheep stations to stop production • Strike was organised with no phones or radios • Longest strike in Australian Hisotry • 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers from 27 stations in Western Australia walked away from their job • Predates the Wave Hill strike in NT by 20 years • Sometimes referred to as “Blackfellas’ Eureka” • Wanted the right to elect their own…

Thursday Island, a small island in the Torres Strait is located 2,640km north west of Brisbane, 804km north of Cairns, 141km south west of Papua New Guinea, 35km north west of Cape York. Its area is about 4.5 square km and is legally part of Queensland. Locally known as “TI”, or the Torres Strait Islander name is Waiben, means ‘dry place’ due to the geological of the island it has lack of fresh water; island gets its water supply from a dam in Horn Island. TI has a tropical humidity and has two…

seemed worn-out with no motivation to stay fit or keep up with the title she once had. Soon after she took a trip out to West Africa where she accredited her faith as a Jehovah’s Witness to start this new life changing journey. By 2009, she had released a new autobiography called “Queen of the Court” and by then had won her place back at the top by winning both the 2009 Australian Open singles for the fourth time and the 2009 Wimbledon singles for the third time. That year not everything was…