Indigenous Australian peoples culture is linked to the land through The Dreaming. The Dreaming is described as the traditional epoch for Indigenous Australians. It is believed to be a period where the ancestor spirits walked along the land‚ forming animals‚ plants‚ and other forms of life/structures known today. They created the relationships between groups of individuals to the land‚ and other organisms‚ furthermore‚ giving Indigenous Australians their; customs‚ beliefs‚ languages‚ etc. Once everything
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The central theme of this essay is to what extent does the Australian curriculum achieve what it sets out to do. To answer this question‚ four main areas will be covered including‚ what the Australian Curriculum is‚ positions for and against the Australian Curriculum‚ the effectiveness of the Australian Curriculum and implications for the students when implementing the Australian Curriculum. Each of these four aspects considers literature to determine to what extent the curriculum is achieving what
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interpretation of the Australian colonies is that‚ it was a period of harsh and brutal forced labor‚ where convicts were treated as human commodities and labor was extracted by punishment. Convicts were subjected to various types of reprimands such as shortened rations‚ leg-irons‚ being placed on treadmills‚ head shavings‚ floggings‚ execution and forced transportation to penal stations‚ which was a place of secondary punishment. These punishments meted out in the Australian colonies came in various
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Since settlement‚ the Australian nation has been fixated on the question of “what defines us” as a people. From the bush legend of early settlement‚ to the beach culture of the 1980’s and 90’s‚ our search for a singular national identity has seen various failed attempts at pinning down ‘what it really means to be Australian’. National image and identity is a creation of the times‚ and as such‚ the pursuit for a defining any one national identity is an unattainable dream. In this essay I will endeavour
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Explain the significance of the Freedom Rides for Australia in the post-World War 2 period. The Australian Freedom Rides was not only significant but an extremely important historical event that occurred‚ that marginally affected the living standards‚ rights and the way our nation saw Aboriginal people. Starting through a very important Australian Aboriginal activists Charles Perkins‚ who was the first Aboriginal student to attend Sydney University‚ when he created SAFA in 1964. SAFA was a mixed
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‘Australian spirit’ is a term often thrown around when discussing relevant social matters such as the global refugee crisis‚ immigration and Aboriginal issues. To many‚ it is synonymous with the concept of ‘mateship’‚ a laidback‚ friendly attitude. The significance of proposing to introduce recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (ATSI peoples) into the Constitution is that it embodies the ‘Australian spirit’. The Constitution is the foundation of Australian society‚ as it determines
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marginal tax rates‚ which is the most economically productive use of tax surpluses. Moreover‚ financing Social Security privatization‚ and tax reform‚ as much of the rest of the world is now doing‚ would enhance the long-term growth potential of the Australian economy substantially more than retiring Government Bonds. This country is on the brink of economic utopia‚ and the real worry is that this government is squandering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to position Australia to have a positively
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Despite the stereotypical Australian image being one of a rural setting the majority of Australia’s population is and always has been most concentrated in urban centres and capital cities. Forster refers to this Metropolitan Primacy as one of the most striking features of the Australian settlement pattern (Forster‚ 2004). The history of the development and urbanisation of Australia and its cities has been a unique process‚ which does not necessarily conform to the process seen in other countries
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Australian ectotherms and endotherms A- TYPES OF TEMPERATURE REGULATION 1- The cat‚ human and platypus could be described as true endotherms‚ as they all maintain a relatively constant internal body temperature that is independent of the external temperature. As the environmental temperature rises from 5C to 40C‚ the humans body temperature remains constant‚ the cat’s and the platypus’ increases by around 3▫C. 2- The lizard and echidna are ectotherms as their body temperature fluctuates according
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The Australian federation was a time of unification and making all the places in Australia one. The intention of this essay is to argue that the Federation of Australia was a triumph for all Australians as it gave a sense of pride. The federation of Australia was a triumph for Australian unity as it gave Australia better trading systems as it allowed Australia to trade more goods across the entire country‚ the federation also gave Australia one national defence which was better than having a separate
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