of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians through recognising their role as key stakeholders in our business and franchised stores and ensuring our workforce and operations are representative of the diversity of the communities in which we‚ and our franchisees‚ operate. We want to work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to create long-term sustainable opportunities that contribute to closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage by committing to clear actions
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children were forcibly removed from their families in an effort to ’civilize’ them by assimilation into European society and culture. As most Australians now know‚ successive Government authorities assumed legal guardianship of all Indigenous children and removed approximately 100‚000 part-Aboriginal children from their parents and placed them with white Australian families‚ or in institutional care. Often they were abused‚ or used as domestic servants‚ or simply placed in homes against their will. The
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Long before the Europeans had any plans to colonise Australia‚ the indigenous peoples of the continent explored‚ settled‚ and successfully inhabited areas that later were silent witnesses to failed European expeditions. By some accounts‚ aborigines may have been in Australia for as long as sixty thousand years. From a pre-colonisation high of roughly 750‚000 inhabitants and more than 500 linguistic groups‚ by 1901 Australia’s first pioneers and colonisers amounted to less than one percent of the
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magic realism. Although we can see evidence of all these in the text‚ it is the conventions of magic realism which work well in the creation of meaning and the formation of parallels between the society depicted within the novel‚ and a contemporary Australian. Some key elements of magic realist novels are that they include the use of fantastical elements‚ extensive use of symbols and imagery to drive the narrative and the distortion of time. We can see examples of these elements within Cloudstreet‚ which
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their values. The importance of culture lies in the fact that it is a link between people and their value systems. The ‘Stolen Generation’ which refers to the generations of children that were an Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were taken from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions‚ under acts of their respective parliaments‚ is an epitome of this damaging action. This action of subduing of a culture lost was a significant
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regarded the Aboriginals as their children and Australians themselves as fathers. The definition of Paternalism is a policy or practice of treating or governing people in a fatherly manner‚ especially by providing for their needs without giving them rights or responsibilities. Although the ’frontier’ period of Australian history can be viewed in the terms of war‚ there were also many white settlers who were appalled at the treatment of the Indigenous people and wanted to help them. Some of those who
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Phillip Gwynne’s novel ‘Deadly Unna’ is set in Australia in the 1960s in the small coastal town of ‘The Port’‚ where indigenous Australians and Caucasians did not associate‚ a father was ashamed of his son and siblings supported one another. Gwynne effectively addresses the wider social issues of racism‚ psychological abuse and the importance of family in the novel. The issue of racism is thoroughly expored throughout Gwynne’s novel. Gary Black – ironically nicknamed ‘Blacky’ - the narrator of
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Russel Street we reach a new gate at the terminal‚ little burke street- as if a slice of China had been uprooted and planted right in the middle of Melbourne city. We have cultural music festivals where the drums of Africa and the didgeridoos of the indigenous filter into the streets‚ a musical harmony that proudly demonstrates our ethnic diversity Visiting Federation Square during the Indian food and wine gala‚ the orange‚ green and white flag was raised high while the smell of coriander and cardamom
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Gondwana 3 factors that have influenced the evolution of Australia… Biological Isolation: Flora and fauna has been able to adapt over millions of years in isolation. It has been able to adapt without the influence of predators. That is why Australian fauna is very susceptible to introduced species. EG. The fact that Kangaroos have roamed around for many years without predators. Geological Isolation: Due to the land not being refreshed regularly from instability (volcanic action) the land
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AL375 The Stolen Generations The Aboriginal people of Australian and the invading Europeans have a complex and troublesome past extending back to the European colonisation of Australia. Governmental policy in relation to the Aboriginal people has greatly changed over time. Unfortunately‚ until around the 1970s‚ the Aboriginals were regarded as inferior beings unworthy of basic human rights and‚ at times‚ life itself. One such time period was the Stolen Generations where tens of thousands of
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