AQUINAS COLLEGE YEAR 10 HISTORY National Curriculum Program 2013 Semester 2‚ 2013 Assessment Instrument 3 AREA OF STUDY: THE MODERN WORLD (c.1920 – 2010CE). DEPTH STUDY 3: CIVIL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS (1945 – PRESENT). Assessment Mode: Inquiry-based Research Assignment FOCUS OF INQUIRY: How did the iconic Civil Rights activists of the 1950’s & the 1960’s achieve social change for Torres Strait Islanders‚ Indigenous Australians and the African-American people? Name: ________________________
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Mahatma Ghandi once said that "My Notion of Democracy is that under it‚ the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest ’ (The Free Dictionary‚ 2010‚ p2). Ghandi ’s struggle for freedom in India resulted in self-rule being granted to the people. We sing about freedom in our national anthem and we talk about it in everyday life. We fly our flag with pride and take advantage of the rights and freedoms that our country offers us. We must now walk proudly beside our fellow non indigenous
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Religion and Belief Systems in Australia post-1945 1.1 Contemporary Aboriginal Spiritualties Kinship and the Dreaming The Dreaming is the key concept underpinning all aspects of Aboriginal spirituality and‚ indeed‚ all facets of traditional Aboriginal life. At its basis is an ancient event whereby the ‘sky heroes’ (ancestral spirit beings) formed everything upon the earth (oceans‚ mountains‚ rocks‚ insects‚ animals etc) from a featureless‚ never-ending plain. Yet the dreaming exists in the
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which it is told without precise delineations. Sundiata’s story that is recounted by the griot to Mabo‚ begins in the 19th frame in the usual form of many stories dating back to an imprecise past: A long time ago! That brief spell is interrupted in the 21st frame by Sitan’s calling of Mabo. That sets in train the gamut of the extra-diegetical flow of their morning routine as a family up to the time when Mabo comes back from school. The Sundiata story resumes in the very close up of the 50th frame of the
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ancestral spirits when they die. The Land Rights Movement formed due to the desire of the Aboriginal people to gain access to their traditional lands. The High Court’s Mabo decision in 1992 was the first recognition of the spiritual links that the Aboriginal people had with their land and allowed the Land Rights Movement to go forward. The Mabo decision was significant
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Introduction Law is an arrangement or a system of principles that are upheld through social organizations to oversee conduct. (Robertson‚ Crimes against humanity ‚2013‚ 90).Laws can be made by an aggregate council or by a solitary administrator‚ bringing about statutes‚ by the official through declarations and regulations‚ or by judges through binding precedent ‚ normally in common jurisdictions.
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‘terra nullius’ claim were by aboriginal activists challenging Australian sovereignty on the grounds that terra nullius was applied improperly. Mechanisms that have been put into action are the Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth) which was enacted by the Mabo cases and the Native Title Amendment 1998 (Cwlth) by the Wik case. When the British declared Australia as ‘terra nullius’ it impacted the Indigenous Australians as land belonged to the Crown and they lost all rights to their land. It was unjust as
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surrounding Indigenous Australians land rights claims from the mid-1980s onwards. He then goes on to discuss that the law surrounding land always adhered to the principles of Governor Bourke’s’ Proclamation‚ until the landmark decision handed down in the Mabo case. However‚ he concludes that in regard to political climate little else has been done in the advancement of land rights’ legislation in regard to the Indigenous Australian population. He also provides a comparison between how Australia and Canada
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Aboriginal law had lasted for hundreds of years before white settlement of Australia in 1788. The laws were based from the Dreamtime and were formed by ancestors‚ spirits and Aboriginal beliefs. These laws were passed down by a word-of-mouth tradition and as there were many different tribes consisting of many clans spread out over a large area‚ separate laws were adapted to specific tribes and areas. Aboriginal customary laws were developed and based on the aboriginal relationship to the land as
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Australia especially the aboriginals who suffered an extremely racist history. Many have fought for change such as Mabo which fought for land right‚ Martin Luther King which he had a dream where black and white people could get along and Rosa Parks who had sat in the front seat of the bus and then got arrested for it. Now teenagers today are disrespecting the hard work of great people like Mabo ect. We all say racist things to Asians for no reason‚ than to make us laugh and may do it to other cultures
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