Australia Timeline: The Aboriginal Australian species originated from Africa approximately 200‚000 years ago and migrated to Asia 70‚000 years ago then continued to Australia 50‚000 years ago. Before 1788 only the Indigenous people of Australia - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders‚ populated Australia. In 1788 Aboriginal people inhabited the whole of Australia and Torres Strait Islanders lived on the islands between Australian and Papua New Guinea‚ in what is now called the Torres
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Understanding of society helps with the meaning of this text‚ through multiple aspects. These are shown in the text through various themes/issues. These themes NO SUGAR (JACK DAVIS) Jack Davis’ “No Sugar”‚ written in 1985‚ is a play that highlights Australian racism and cultural destruction caused by British colonialism. It is set in 1929 (Great Depression) in Northam‚ Western Australia. The play explores the impacts of the European social The paucity of power is one struggle which many marginalised
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their communities and their stories‚ portrayed in a naturalistic‚ detailed and genuine light. Despite the Australian government’s notorious refusal to apologise to the indigenous community regarding Australia’s colonial past and its efforts to discredit the ’Stolen Generation’ there is a strong willingness among a good portion the Australian public to forge an understanding for indigenous culture and history - a sentiment that was evident at the public screening of Yolngu Boy which I attended.
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as all the society. They should not be able to have the same rights as the whole country has because they don’t have enough power‚ the ones with more power should be respected and not treated the same as the others. The Australian Government is not very interested in the indigenous population in Australia because they are not really an important part of the country for them.Their opinions and points of view of things are not really an important for the country. But one of my country’s past experiences
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1. Prologue: Aftermath a) Describe the tone of the opening scene and describe the three women based upon their actions and attitudes in this scene. The tone of the opening scene is dull as they are cleaning up after a flood. The weather is described as ‘gloomy’‚ which gives the reader an idea of how the three women must be feeling. Nan Dear and Dolly are showing their feelings whereas Gladys is trying to lighten the mood and look at the bright side to cheer all three of them up. 2. Scene 1
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communication‚ trade‚ and migration. Globalization can transform cultures and the identity of people within those cultures. One of the primary factors that leads to globalization in the advancement of technology In 1980 Dr. Knauft began to study an indigenous group of people deep in the forests of Papua New Guinea. This group of people had no contact with the outside world until the 1960’s‚ they were cut off from everything. They had a language and a name that was unknown to Anthropologists at the time
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Dennis) The Indigenous genre in recent Australian films have been depicted as falsely represented. Prime examples being recent Australian films Satellite Boy (directed by Catriona McKenzie) and Australia (directed by Baz Luhrmann). Though they are world-renowned the representation of the Indigenous genre shown through these films have been criticised as shallow. However Mad Bastards (2011) directed by Brendan Fletcher gives an insight of a unique yet accurate portrayal of Indigenous genre by the
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Referendum‚ Australians showed their support for the Aboriginals‚ by voting to change the Constitution to include the indigenous in the Census and giving overriding authority to the Commonwealth government regarding Aboriginal affairs. Ralph Hunt‚ of the National Coalition Party and Federal Minister in 1971 stated ‘To just set aside land because Aboriginal groups and tribes believe they have a special right to it tends to only perpetuate the tribal system’‚ explaining that Indigenous people did not
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In the Indigenous community‚ Aboriginal people learned about their environment before they were able to identify the characteristics of animals‚ plants‚ sources of food and water‚ useful materials and the weather. The stories that they tell provide them with a map of their environment and information such as trade routes and resources. With the knowledge they had due to their access to information about their land led them to know how to travel successfully around the Australian landscape
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