Artist: Gordon Bennett Gordon Bennett‚ born 1955‚ is an Australian artist of Aboriginal and Anglo-Gaelic descent. Born in Monto‚ Queensland‚ and now working in Brisbane‚ Bennett is a significant figure in contemporary Indigenous Australian art. Born in Monto‚ Queensland‚ of Anglo-Celtic and Aboriginal ancestry‚ Gordon Bennett grew up in Victoria from the age of four‚ when his family moved back to Queensland‚ to the town of Nambour. He attended high school in Brisbane‚ attending Brisbane State
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for this reason many Indigenous people refer to it as “Invasion Day” or “Survival Day.” As Professor Dodson agrees “We have to have a date that’s more inclusive than January 26.” The changing of the date of Australia Day would broadcast our sincerity and hope for reconciliation for what the first settlers committed. To many Australians‚ Australia Day is just another day off. Therefore‚ Australia Day should be changed to a more appropriate date that truly represents Australians at our finest. The
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who they could marry. The indigenous children were often forced from their parents and adopted into white families or taken to missions. Children as young as babies were stolen from their families to be placed in girls and boys homes‚ foster families or missions. At the age of 18 they were ‘released’ into white society‚ most scarred for life by their experiences. 1. What has changed? Since the Stolen Generation was abolished‚ a lot has changed for indigenous Australians. Aboriginals have gotten
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census”(About the 1967 Referendum). The 1967 referendum can be commonly considered the turning point in Australian history and culture for finally addressing discrimination towards the Indigenous people and taking responsibility for Aboriginal affairs. However‚ some do not have the same representation of the results of the 1967 referendum because of the little improvement it has done for the Indigenous people. People have a negative representation of the 1967 referendum because there is still inequality
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‘Australia’. A few of the main characters that are affected in the movie is Nullah‚ The Drover‚ Lady Ashley. The people that are being most affected in the movie would have to be the indigenous‚ that’s because the time the movie was set in‚ was when the white australia policy was happening‚ so pretty much every Australian was being racist towards aboriginal people. Racism is problem that everybody is affected in the world today. In the movie Australia‚ all the aboriginal people was being well behaved
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“Australians of all colours‚ creeds and commitments are all here to stay‚ and we have to learn to live together.” - Rabbi Raymond Apple in an address at the Great Synagogue Sydney‚ Shabbat‚ 6 December 1997 ____________________________________________________________ _________________________ Reconciliation is a form of agreement that deals with the legacies of our history‚ provides justice for all‚ and takes us forward as a nation. It is the process of Aboriginal Torres Strait Islanders and
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Task 2 - Mateship Good evening and welcome to another episode of Talkables‚ where tonight‚ I’ll be conveying my thoughts on an ideology that has played a key role in Australian films and society throughout generations. Last year‚ I was in a cast with a broken leg for weeks‚ and couldn’t do much around the house. In an attempt to get some gardening done‚ I hobbled outside to water the plants and fell face first into the grass. Luckily‚ my neighbour‚ who I’ve never spoken to before‚ rushed to
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Under the White Australia and assimilation policies Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were ‘not of full blood’ were encouraged to become assimilated into the broader society so that eventually there would be no more Indigenous people left. At the time Indigenous people were seen as an inferior race. Children were taken from Aboriginal parents so they could be brought up ‘white’ and taught to reject their Aboriginality. Children were placed with institutions and from the 1950s began
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[pic] A short history of the systematic Removal of Aboriginal Children from their Families in NSW. “Indigenous children have been forcibly separated from their families and communities since the very first days of the European occupation of Australia” obtained from the Bringing Them Home Report Who are the Stolen Generations The term ‘stolen generations” is in reference to those Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed‚ as children‚ from their families and
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an overt political argument‚ Keating’s objective is to encourage a sense of Australian national identity through the values he embodies in the Unknown Soldier. Even as Keating honours the Unknown Soldier’s individual sacrifice‚ he also redeploys him as a representative figure. Not only does the Soldier represent the thousands that have gone to war for Australia‚ he also represents the values that are upheld in Australian society. By listing a number of unknown details in the introductory paragraphs
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