to native title Native title is a legal right on Indigenous Australian Communities to live on and use land with which they have an ongoing association. Native title has been an issue as its difficult determining whether Australia was ‘terra nullius’ and it wasn’t the Indigenous ad to prove they have traditional links with the land. The conditions that have led to reform to the ‘terra nullius’ claim were by aboriginal activists challenging Australian sovereignty on the grounds that terra nullius was
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INTRODUCTION The indigenous peoples of the Philippines consist of a large number of indigenous ethnic groups living in the country. They are the descendants of the original inhabitants of the Philippines who have managed to resist centuries of Spanish and United States colonization and in the process have retained their customs and traditions. The Philippine government succeeded in establishing a number of protected for tribal groups. Indigenous people were expected to speak
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the past sheds light on the present" - HSC 2013 Speeches form an interpretation of historical events and values which are moulded around the speaker’s opinions and ideology. Paul Keating’s ’Funeral Service of the Unknown Australian Soldier’ 1993 and Noel Pearson’s ’An Australian History for Us All’ 1996‚ demonstrate a contrast between how a historical and contextual understanding of these speeches helps create the necessary apperception on the given audience to convey the speaker’s message appropriately
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extend to countries and ethnic communities‚ so that people feel injured when other persons sharing their identity are injured or killed. Sometimes people are even willing to sacrifice their individual lives to preserve their identity groups. The Australians Aboriginal sense of personal identity is derived from only one context‚ the idea of place. Negara‚ sense of place‚ is a word of great importance that contains both physical and metaphysical connotations. Unraveling these apparent contradictions
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Protection policy‚ Assimilation‚ Integration‚ Self Determination and Reconciliation. In the early 20th century it was believed that Aboriginals we unable to care for themselves or make effective decisions as they were considered uncivilised by the Australian public. The protection policy was implemented; therefore the government would control every aspect of an Aboriginal’s life. The Aborigines Protection Act was passed in 1909 to control and restrict the movement of Aborigines across reserves‚ the
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values and symbols important to Aboriginal society. Stolen Generations: term used to describe the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who‚ while children‚ Australian state and federal governments forcibly removed from their families. The term usually refers to those taken during the period from about 1910 to around 1970. For most Australians‚ the family unit is where people should be cared for‚ protected and educated in the behaviour and customs of their society and culture. In Aboriginal and Torres
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racism‚ which leads to inequality to particular ethnic groups. For example‚ in Australia‚ since European people arrived there in 1788‚ they have discriminated against indigenous people‚ Aborigines (Kuhn‚ 1998: 30). The European invaders drove most of Aboriginal people out of the mainland‚ and furthermore‚ they took a lot of indigenous children from their families and forced them to work at white farms or stations. They did not even consider Aboriginal people the citizen of Australia until 1967‚ and
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From the mid nineteenth century‚ Australian colonial and state governments adopted ‘protective’ policies to control and segregate Aboriginal people from the white population‚ and from each other. Government policies were enforced by white ‘protectors’ who administered the reserves and had wide-ranging powers. Through the policies of Protection (1901-1940)‚ Assimilation (1950s-1968)‚ Integration (1968) and Self-determination (1972)‚ governments directed where and how Aboriginal people should live
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“In the Name of the Child”: An analysis and critique of The Northern Territory National Emergency Response (NTER) “…the starting point might be to recognise that the problem starts with us non-Aboriginal Australians. It begins‚ I think‚ with the act of recognition. Recognition that it was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers.
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asked Australians to decide whether Aboriginals should be included in the national census‚ with over ninety per cent voting yes‚ many consider the referendum to be a great success. In that respect the referendum was indeed a success because the vast majority of voters wished to include Aboriginals in the census‚ but in many ways the poll was a failure. Some Aboriginals and many other Australians believed that the referendum would mean equality between the natives and the white Australians. Despite
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