The White Man’s Burden: Australia and the Stolen Generation. ”TAKE up the White Man’s burden - Send forth the best ye breed- Go bind your sons to exile‚ To serve your captives need;” Those are the words of Rudyard Kipling that are meant to describe the back then ubiquitous way of thinking that was called “The white man’s burden”. It is an ideology that dictates that it is the moral obligation of the white man to better the lives of the “coloured“ people of the world whether they wanted it
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local indigenous populations in country towns. 1967 REFERENDUM Up until 1967 the commonwealth government could only make laws for indigenous people in NT and ACT‚ it had no power other states due to the constitution. To be able to pass laws and money onto Aboriginal Australians the constitution had to be changed. Therefore a referendum had to take place over two issues; - Should
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“Memo to J.C” from 1988‚ was written by Maureen Watson who was an aboriginal herself. She was popular and highly-respected by non-natives as well as Aboriginal Australians. She was at the forefront of Aboriginal rights. In 1996 she was awarded the Australia Council Red Ochre award because of her national and international work with Aboriginal art. Also she received the United Nations Association Global Leadership Prize for her outstanding work towards building cross-cultural understanding and harmony
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literature. It was published in the 1960’s. The purpose of the text is to give hope in a new beginning after the events involving the racial tension between the Aboriginals and the white settlers. The poem is directed to the Aboriginal people of Australia who suffered from these events. This poem relates to Aboriginal Australian as it was written by the hand and views of one‚ and was written for the Aboriginals. The text itself is very emotive and powerful and I personally was unable to resist the
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Australian Rules A comparative review by Anita Jetnikoff (QUT) for Australian Screen Education. Published as: Jetnikoff‚ Anita (2003) Australian Rules: a comparative review. Australian Screen Education(30):36-38. The title may mislead some viewers‚ as this is not a film about a football code‚ anymore than Bend it with Beckham is about soccer. This powerful‚ brave and rather brutal feature is the debut of Paul Goldman‚ who co-wrote the screenplay with the novelist Phillip Gwynne. Both the storylines
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Aboriginal Australians have fought to retain their pride but still are treated unfairly within today’s society. The poem “The Black Drunkard” by Kevin Gilbert and the song “from little things big things grow’” by Paul Kelly exposes the impact that society has left on the aboriginal race. The ballad “The Black Drunkard” By Kevin Gilbert uses many different poetic devises to capture the concept of a man who has been disjointed with his cultural identity. Within these quatrains Gilbert uses the
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Analytical Essay In this essay Rueben Brands “Bloody Boat People”‚ published 2012 by Courier Mail. The drawings reveal that Aboriginals were infuriated by the boat people because the boat people took their land and disrespect their life‚ take their jobs‚ disrespect their laws‚ form criminal gangs and deal drugs to their kids‚ the boat people not even tried to learn their language. The realistic drawing of the two Aboriginal men with angry expression on their face towards the boat arriving near
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“The UK needs a written constitution” Consider the arguments for and against such a document At the moment‚ the British constitution is unwritten‚ although it may be less misleading to call it uncodified as various elements of the constitution are written down. The term uncodified means the constitution is not all kept in a single document‚ but is spread about in various pieces of legislature. It also means British laws‚ policies and codes are developed through statutes‚ common law‚ convention
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Ratification of the Constitution The constitution is once created in 1787 is now still used by the country of The United States of America today. Now a great accomplishment‚ it took a little more than just one draft to be able to ratify it. The states that didn’t ratify the constitution at first definitely choice right compared to the states that agreed first. The states that didn’t ratify in the beginning chose wisely for with first ratifying there would not have been things such as. The reason
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Here are some characteristics of U.S.A. Constitution. Check And Balance: it was hoped that making each branch accountable to different groups would cause a variety of interests to be reflected. checks and balances prevent official tyranny and even more important‚ to prevent a single segment of the population‚ majority or minority‚ from gaining complete control of the government. Sepreration Of Powers: The basic feature of the constitution of America is the distribution of national powers among
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