Western Australia

settlers arrived in Australia 35,000 years ago during the great ice age. The sea levels lowered between Indonesia and New Guinea and created a land bridge that would allow nomadic tribes to cross from Southeast Asia. Like many other humans of that epoch, they were hunters and gatherers and traveled from place to place in search of young creatures. Thousands of years after these drifters arrived; the glaciers thawed and brought up the seas once again, which kept the citizenry of Australia…

the characteristics the soldiers were said to have possessed. However, as today marks the centenary of the Gallipoli landing, it is questionable whether or not the Anzac Legend truly reflects the qualities of the soldiers a centenary ago, or even Australia as a nation in the past and in the present day. The Legend is so ingrained into our society that…

risk of being infected. Australia is the only developed country where trachoma remains endemic, with the Indigenous communities suffering the heaviest burden of disease. As part of the World Health Organization (WHO) GET2020 Alliance, the Australian government has invested large sums of money in the combat of thracoma as a public health concern. By adopting the SAFE (surgery, antibiotics, facial cleaning and environmental improvement) strategy recommended by the WHO, Australia adjusted the…

from the muddy and stagnating Western Front. The Middle Eastern Campaign/Palestine Campaign is a highly controversial event, as it is neglected historically. Australia’s contribution throughout the campaign was exemplified mainly by: the ANZACS participating in the defence of the Suez Canal in the Attack on Romani, advancing into Palestine and capturing…

Prior to commencing this unit, I never thought twice about ‘white privilege’, how racism is more than individual unjust acts towards another person or how the history of Australia may affect Indigenous Australians. This is largely because the families in the area I resided in were predominantly Non-Indigenous Australians and throughout my schooling years the education on Indigenous Australians I received was limited to tokenistic attributes of the culture. However, after reading the course…

The National Museum of Australia (2014) report on the freedom rides stated that the activists received comments from the Australian public that they should “look to their own back yard if they wanted to draw attention to racial discrimination”. In 1964 a group of students from the…

SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH The Stolen Generation all began with the British deciding they’ll send out the over population of convicts to settle in Australia on the 26th of January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour carrying out roughly 15,000 convicts. The first interaction between the British settlers and the indigenous Australians was one of anger; the British believed the Indigenous Australians were uncivilised because of the way they lived. Indigenous Australians…

world wars are a clear contender in these issues for the most part they are what have shaped our very nation today, for instance the second world war had such an impact that Paul Kelly argues it “remade Australia” it industrialized the nation with over 400 new products being produced within Australia alone, this however impressive is built on the fact that about 50,000…

home country in fear of persecution. In 2011 there were a total of 1,669,725 asylum applications received worldwide, yet only 0.92% of those were made to Australia (Healey 2013). Despite being a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, Australia has some of the toughest immigration policies worldwide. Australia, for example, is the only western country to place asylum seekers in mandatory detention instead of allowing them to live in the community while their claims are being processed.…

Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system has been the focus of numerous reports, discussions and research projects since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991 (Wahlquist, 2016). Revealing unacceptably high Indigenous imprisonment rates, the data is grim, indicating that even though comprising less than 3% of the population, Indigenous people represent almost 33% of the prison population, and over 50% of all young people in detention (Australian…