Torres Strait Islanders

1. Individual Component: Profile Patricia June O’Shane was born in 1941 into an interracial family (a rarity for that period), at a time when it was common practice for the removal of children from their families where it was deemed children were being neglected (McIntyre & McKeich, 2009). The removals often triggered children to feel disconnected with their culture/traditional ways and their family’s history (Cowlishaw, 2004). Both of Patricia’s grandparents had been removed from their families…

changes. In relation to human rights, specifically genocidal crime, law reform has been ineffective in protecting human rights on both a domestic and international scale. The article “The National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their families” goes into depth regarding the genocidal acts between 1910 and 1970 of the removal of Aboriginal children from their family homes. Statistics state that between 1 in 3 and 1 in 10 were forcibly removed…

In recent times, the holiday of ‘Australia Day’ has been a cause of tension between white Australians and the Indigenous population, as our nation’s first people are often disregarded in the celebrations of our country. Amy McGuire wrote an article centred around this debate on the 27th of January 2014, titled “Australia Day: Indigenous people are told to ‘get over it’. It’s impossible”. McGuire’s contention is that the Indigenous population deserves better recognition on Australia Day, and she…

The given extract is a speech delivered by Stan Grant on Racism and Australian dream in 2016 at Ethics Centre, Sydney, Australia. He primarily targets the audience belonging to Australia. With the use sarcastic and confronting tone speaker expresses his disappointment and serve his purpose to inform the audience about the historical brutality suffered by the aborigines with the use rhetorical questions, anaphora, and juxtaposition. Stan Grant at the start of his speech uses rhetorical question…

In January, for the first time in 450 years of history, Trinity College, Oxford, removed it’s collection of ancient paintings hung within the dining room and replaced them with an array of Thompson's work. These pieces are from one of Thompson's latest series of photographic self portraits ‘We Bury Our Own’. Invaded Dreams is one from a series of Thompson's works titled We Bury Our Own in which he created in response to the Australian colonial archive collection held by the Pitt Rivers Museum,…

Elders and custodians of the Yuin nation, past and present, their descendants and kin of the land where I am living, studying and working. This is a warning that this journal may contain images, voices and names of deceased Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Island people. Whilst attending school with two Aboriginal students in my class, I was never exposed to people stereotyping Aboriginal people. I lived in an inland rural area of New South Wales, and after finishing school I moved to Kununurra…

everything, their homes, their ancestors, their food, their heritage. Is the name used to refer to the Aboriginal and Torres islander people of Australia originally or by descent. The Aboriginal Torres Islander are the first indigenous settlers living in Australia for more than 40000 years. The Aboriginal People normally have dark brown skin, and big brown eyes. The Aboriginal Torres Islander communities…

There are many groups of Aboriginal people in Sydney and Marrickville Region, one of them is the Cadigal Wangal clans from the Eora Nation. The Cadigal group is located in Petersham and near to the Cooks River, while the Wangal are located near to the Parramatta River in Parramatta. A brief of the big days in Aboriginal traditions was back in 2007 when the NAIDOC (National Aborigines Day Observance Committee) week had the 50 years celebration and the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the…

disadvantages with unit concepts to further explain why these forms of inequality are occurring and continuing. This report will refer to key concepts; the definitions are provided here. Indigenous Australian Youth refers to both Aboriginal and Torres State Islander individuals between…

Sally’s Story Sally’s Story illustrates the life of an average Aboriginal family in Australia. The southern British Commonwealth during that period of time was a far cry from its colonial past, where Aborigines were singled out for persecution. Yet, life for members of the Aboriginal population remains to be a struggle in a subtle but present manner. Indigenous Australians faced difficulties from greater economic hardships caused by poverty and unemployment to social stigma and discrimination,…