everything to them and is closely linked to their Dreaming stories. Dreaming is the belief system which explains how the ancestral beings moved across the land and created life and significant geographic features. In consideration‚ the Indigenous Australians are a people with a close relationship with the land‚ and through the land they maintain the spiritual links to the ancestral beings. The land is sacred‚ and for many thousand years‚ Aboriginal people lived in harmony on their land. After
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Australian Identity Good Morning to one and all‚ Thank you for giving me this opportunity today. As this is Australia Day I would like to reflect today on the issue of Identity There are many Australians who say that Australia has no national identity and would be racist if it got one. Ironically‚ such an attitude is a uniquely Australian thing to say. But Australia is a country that has been described‚ as diverse‚ multicultural and unique. Australian society has evolved in a very short space
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been taken away from their families and lost links with their language‚ culture and traditions; they are known as Stolen Generation. Between 1995 – 1997 The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) provided recommendations to reunite Indigenous families affected by the Stolen Generation. However these recommendations have not been enforced which has resulted in failure to reconcile. The Stolen Generation did not move on to become labourers or servants. In general‚ the education they
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Parliament House‚ Canberra‚ 2008. The “Stolen Generation” were the children of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions‚ under the acts of their respective Parliaments. Kevin Rudd’s aim was to inform the Indigenous community of the Australian Governments ‘wrong doings’ to their people of the past. Kevin Rudd informed the Aboriginal community and the Parliament of his intentions to equalise the opportunities
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The health of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples compared to the non-Indigenous population is significantly poorer (Wieland 2014‚ p. 12). The “Closing the Gap” campaign aims to create generational Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality (Wieland 2014‚ p. 12). This essay will discuss the Aboriginal And Torres Strait health reforms‚ factors that impact on their health and wellbeing and strategies that allow protection against adversity. This essay will also discuss
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Aboriginals The treatment of Indigenous Australians by the government has been an issue of controversy since White Europeans settled in Australia. Throughout history Aboriginals have developed and hosted many protests‚ sometimes with the help of the White Europeans that wanted to make a difference to get back rights and freedoms of Aboriginals. The Australian Aborigines were the first people to live on the continent Australia‚ being here longer than the White Australians. During that time‚ the Aboriginal
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story written by Doris Pilkington Garimara which takes a jab at the issue Aboriginals faced with regards to the stolen generation. When watching you this film you are exposed to Noyce’s brient work in creating a narrtive stucter. There are 3 young indigenous girls are ripped from their mothers bare hands and are taken from Jigalong to Moore River Native Settlement during the 1930’s to be assimilated into the white socielty. This movement was reinforced by A.O Neville that all half-caste children are
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blindnesses and flaws in this vision. However‚ the fact remains that Cloudstreet is a phenomenon; an astoundingly popular novel‚ made into a television mini-series‚ adapted to stage‚ and in 2012 voted the most popular Australian novel by viewers of the ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club. For Australian playwright Nick Enright‚ co-author of the stageplay of Cloudstreet‚ ’People get that look in their eye‚ that Cloudstreet look’. For him‚ the novel has ’leapt the fence in Australia‚ it’s in the bloodstream of the
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Judith Wright is a prominent figure in Australian literature‚ as well as an environmentalist and social activist. This plays a major role in her various collections of poems‚ where she explores both national and personal concerns. These include her fight for Aboriginal land rights‚ as well as personal experiences such as pregnancy and motherhood. Through her poetry‚ Wright is able to give voice to the interest of social groups who are often denied one. Wright’s poem “Woman to Child” primarily
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statement. Check your assessment against the feedback given underneath the introduction. 1 Popular representations of Australia like to portray it as the land of the “fair go”. 2However “a fair go” has proved illusive for significant groups in Australian society.
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