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What do we commemorate? Date/Time: 2nd November Learning area(s): History, English, Civics and Citizenship Year: 3 Learning objectives - Understand what a commemoration is and that it is connected to real life events that occurred in the past - Australians commemorate some important events - Compare and contrast information about remembrance Curriculum links History (ACARA, 2014a) • Days and weeks are celebrated or commemorated in Australia (Including Remembrance Day) and the importance of…

Before beginning this presentation, I would just like to acknowledge the area which we now know as the City of Wyndham was a place of much significance to the local Aboriginal people and that we should respect the first Australians of this land. Many native people around the world have been known to undergo a pattern of mistreatment and oppression, Australia is not exempt from this. There have been a few improvements over the years, as many have tried to restore the implications made in the…

destructive impacts of the military and wars as well as the biased social and economic policies in our country. HPJ’s programs focus on Growing Youth, Growing Peace, and Growing Solidarity. The programs focused on Growing Youth encourages and educates the new youth leaders, activists, and organizers on the peace and justice movement of Hawai’i. They provide training and educational programs to help develop the creativity, critical thinking, and leadership and organizing skills needed for their…

Chris Crutcher’s Whale Talk tackles a lot of important issues and topics facing teens and young adults. One of those is abuse. He tells about how different characters deal with and overcome their abuse through theme, tone, and modern connections. It is important to know that not everyone deals with abuse the same way, and that not everyone has someone to help them deal with their issues. Two characters in Whale Talk have been abused and they dealt with it in very different ways. One of the…

The Australian Strike at Wave Hill station(August 1966), commonly known as The Wave Hill “Walk off” symbolised a turning point in aboriginal rights, as Aboriginal workers abandoned their duties at the cattle station in protest of poor wages and working conditions. The strike soon shifted its motives and became an issue of humanitarian rights, as the Gurindji people were denied ownership of their stolen land. The issue swiftly became symbolic of maltreatment of Aboriginal people throughout…

kilometres north from the city of Adelaide (125 miles). The Flinders ranges stretch for over 430 kilometres. Starting at Port Pirie and ending near lake Callabonna 120 kilometers from Cameron corner, the junction of South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales. How where the ranges formed? Believe it or not about 8oo million years ago the Ranges where nearly completely under water. In that period great forces of nature and tectonic plates lifted the entire east coast of Australia out…

Though many people of the Australian population view Australia Day as a day off to relax, January 26th has always been divisive, with the remainder of the population seeing January 26th as Invasion Day in lieu of a day of celebration. The article ‘Australia Day nationalism walks in the footsteps of ugly precedents’ by Robin Tennant-Wood was written for The Conversation on the 14th of January, 2014 and has one main idea: the meaning of Australia Day has strayed and does not do justice in…

masquerade. The camera then follows Ada outside where the weather is just as melancholic as her temperament. Ada moves to sit down foregrounding a large curtain-framed image of the lush foliage, conceivably a subtle reference to the colonial capture of New Zealand and subsequently the imperialist remodeling of the…

Harbaugh’s Veteran Stereotype In a commentary aired on National Public air, navy pilot veteran, Ken Harbaugh argues about the stereotypes of “damaged” veterans. He speaks about how veterans are portrayed through the media in a negative light, that in terms, is not always true. Harbaugh does this by comparing and contrasting, “damaged” veteran stereotypes, to how veterans really are outside of combat. He mentions several statistical studies, and how media influenced stereotypes corresponds…

The presence of child poverty in New Zealand has been a long standing issue since before the 1990’s and continues to be prevalent in today’s New Zealand. Although child poverty can be linked to multiple causes, there is one major cause that is not widely discussed enough within the political world of New Zealand. This is the issue of structural inequality, structural inequality can be loosely described as “denot[ing] methodical and often subtle processes through which social structures…