Formative Task 1.2 Acceptance into Australian society has always been a struggle for marginalised groups such as Aboriginals and migrants. This has given Australian contemporary writers a voice to address the issue. An Aboriginal poet named Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal wrote a poem titled “The Dispossessed” in which he talks about his struggles with the new multicultural Australian society. This is typified in this quote “Your tribes are broken vagrants now wherever whites abide‚ And justice
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Essay The Australian landscape stills exerts a power over contemporary art due to the fact the Australian land is so different to other landscapes in the world. Some of the different distinctive qualities of the Australian landscape that motivate artists are its harsh light‚ baren‚ dry lands and then the beautiful coastlines. Many artists have been drawn to the Australian landscape due to its intreging landscape. Artists such as John Olsen and Elisabeth Cummings are both drawn to painting the
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assumed to have occurred first in Australia over 50‚000 years ago when the ancestors of Indigenous Australians arrived through the islands of the Malay Archipelago and New Guinea. Furthermore‚ Department
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The Prisoners’ peril Tom Stewart Australian prisoners of war during World War 2 and their horrible ordeal revealed. First of September 1939 the world was about to change again as the Second World War commenced ironically and tragically‚ the events which occurred at the end of WWI were destined to trigger WWII especially when the Treaty of Versailles was put into place. Not everyone was happy with the treaty. Adolf Hitler invaded Poland on 1st September 1939‚ triggering the WWII. Japan then
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The treatment of Australian POW’s‚ particularly under the Japanese‚ in WW2 was horrifying‚ and is considered one of the greatest war atrocities Australia has ever seen. This essay will showcase the ___ treatment of POW’s in Changi‚ Singapore‚ and along the construction of the Burma –Thailand railway line as well as mentioning the experiences of those in Europe and the experience of POW civilians and nurses. All those who interred during WWII faced harsh conditions‚ and their experiences has significantly
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Australia has a population close to 22‚400‚000 people of which one in four people come from a culturally diverse and linguistic background (Dept of Immigration and Citizenship‚ 2009). This essay will explore the social issues of immigration in Australian society especially in relation to refugees. It will give an overview of the history of immigration in Australia. It will then go on to explore refugees and discuss the perceptions of refugees‚ settlement issues of refugees and then go on to look
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Australian Desert 1. The Tropic of Capricorn passes thru the center of Australia. This means the country lies close enough to trade wind latitudes for the prevailing winds to be from the southeast. These bring maritime conditions‚ with abundant rain‚ to the coast of New South Wales and Queensland. 2. Inland lies the Great Dividing Range‚ a mountain range running the length of the country parallel to the east coast. 3. Lands to the west of the mountains lie in a rain shadow. 4. 40% of Australia’s
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development of Australian society and subsequent rights given to Australian citizens‚ thus addressing the guiding question as quoted at the top of the paper. Australia is run by a democratic system at all 3 levels of government (Federal‚ State and Local). Democracy means in Greek "rule by the governed". A democrary has key fundermentals that sustains that type of leadership. In a perfect democracy every citizen has equal accessible amount of power and freedom. In Australia everyone Australian citizen
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This is a class exercise to help me figure out what my long term goals and my short term goals are for my future. I will have thirty thousand dollars to pay for my expenses and manage my life in the future. I will have thirty thousand dollars a year to pay for housing‚ food‚ automobile expenses‚ recreation‚ clothing‚ medical expenses‚ miscellaneous items‚ and any saving and investing I want to do in my future. After I graduate college I plan on moving back home with my parents‚ because it is much
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