Torres Strait Island culture

The Black Diggers: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press for the Autralian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1997. Annotation Robert Anthony Hall was born in 1947 and is an Australian writer who wrote this book through his travelling around the country while he interviews…

Aboriginals. Other memorable events of protest include Eddie Mabo Land Rights. All of these events successfully made significant changes to Aboriginal Australians and shaped their Australian lifestyle. Eddie Koiki Mabo (1936-1992), was a Torres Strait Islander community leader who had advocated for land rights for Indigenous Australians. When the British arrived in…

In the 1900s thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were dispossessed and put into missions. The act of dispossession is to forcibly remove an Indigenous person from their land, this is what happened to these children, but not only were they removed from their land, but also their families. This was extremely harmful to the children as although they gained a higher education than many other Indigenous people they missed out on learning about their cultural heritage, which is…

RACISM & STEREOTYPING Seeing how our own perceptions and attitudes can affect the way we respond to racism & stereotyping is key if we want to equip our children with the skills to grow up successfully in a multicultural society.Whether consciously or unconsciously, we all hold some kind of prejudices or ethnocentric attitudes. Those beliefs we hold that we may not be aware of are often referred to as ‘blind spots.’ Johari’s window is a tool commonly used to show where our blind spots are. We…

defined as; “The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, who are descended from the groups that existed in Australia and the surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.” Indigenous Australians are often referred to as the ‘First Peoples of Australia’, due to their status as being the first human settlers to the Australian continent, approximately 60,000 years ago. However, this broad and sweeping generalisation of both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is…

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 The Aliens Act Repeal Act of (1987) repealed the Aliens Act 1947.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 cultures, and the cry for equal distribution of resources between dominant (or elite) ethnicity groups and minority ethnicities(endnote). Australian multiculturalism was extracted from the State, and did not occur as an expression of Australia’s…

starting this unit, I feel I had limited knowledge of why it was so important and significant to give acknowledgment to the Traditional Custodians, but after these few short weeks I am beginning to broaden my knowledge and understanding of Indigenous cultures and their relationship and connection with the land. Elder ‘Joy Murphy Wandin’ from the Wurundjeri tribe, describes Acknowledgement of Country as being a momentous way of paying respect to the Traditional owners in a symbolic way. NSW…

change people’s lives. Correspondingly, attitudes, values, perceptions and life choices can be shaped by culture (Kinébanian& Stomph, 2010). However, there is inconsistency in the provision of occupational therapy services to clients from different cultures (Darawsheh, Chard & Eklund, 2015). In Australia, there are two Indigenous cultures as part of the Australian nation – Aboriginals and Torres Straight Islanders. For the purpose of this paper they will be referred to as First Australians.…

Eddie Mabo was a Torres Strait Islander born on Mer or Murray Island; he fought to change how British colonies believed that the land they had colonised was terra nullius (no man’s land) (Reconciliation Australia, 2014). The British colonies thought that because they could not see established aboriginal people, farms and houses which were all characteristics of the life back home in England, which they believed that the Aborigines had no connection to land (Korff, 2015). Because of this British…

Australia is the sixth largest country and has one of the world’s largest ocean territory. Vegetation makes up 91% of the country. More than 80% of the people who live in australia live by the coast. There are two hundred different languages spoke in Australia. Some are Italian,Greek and Arabic that is just some of the languages spoken there. They are known to have amazing rainforest, ancient rock formations and great beaches. They were the second country that allowed women the right to vote in…