Essays Tagged: "Aborigines"

What wrongs have white administrators done to Aborginal people in the past? Have all wrong been righted?

wrong been righted?Even though Hardy wrote his book in 1968, he gives a good definition of how the Aborigines were treated in that time. A very bias 'opinion' based difinition of the treatment of Abo ... n until not one Aborgine was left in Tasmania. Even though all te worst of it has been over for the Aborigines - but has all wrongs been righted?One of the most inhumane practices of white settlement ...

(4 pages) 106 1 4.0 Jul/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

a review of The last wave by peter weir

e in the film is the whitemembers of society living in Australia. The subculture in the film is the Aborigines whowere natives to the land before the white people settled in Australia. The nativessust ... dominant white culture imposes their laws , ideas of societal values and moralbeliefs on the native Aborigines. Forcing them to abide by a different law system andway of life than what their peoples h ...

(7 pages) 81 0 4.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Why have people migrated to Australia and what have been the effects of Immigration on the country and its people?

erica, Australia and many more other countries. The first people who migrated to Australia were the Aborigines and Torres Strait islander. They arrived in Australia between fifteen thousand and fifty ... st the people. This would cause racism and segregation in Australia.There was also an impact on the Aborigines communities. When the white people moved to Australia they disrupted the way the Aborigin ...

(4 pages) 210 2 2.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Australian literature: What images and constructions of 'Australian-ness' are represented in early Australian literature?

ory of post-colonised Australia, the contributions and experiences of women, non-Anglo migrants and Aborigines were virtually ignored. Their stories certainly played no role in the forging of the Aust ... of 'Australian-ness' as fair-minded and egalitarian is also challenged by the attitudes towards the Aborigines and non-Anglo immigrants, especially the Chinese. There was hatred and fear of others, an ...

(6 pages) 154 2 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Australian Life Style

and billy and camp out over night when they had no where to stay . The bushman where very much like aborigines they tracked and did not need a compass or a map they knew plants and trees . They called ...

(2 pages) 71 0 3.4 Dec/1997

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The "stolen generation" issue in australia.

In Australia, from 1883 (when the Aborigines Protection Board was established) and, unbelievably, right up to 1969 (when the Aborigine ... sts' of these 'half-caste' children. Government administrators thought that by bringing mixed-blood Aborigines into the white world, the colour could be 'bred out of them' over a few generations. Mean ... ed. Some 200,000 people marched across Sydney Harbour Bridge in May calling for reconciliation with Aborigines. It was by far, the largest political demonstration in the country's history.'Former Prim ...

(5 pages) 168 2 4.4 May/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The changing role of indigenous people in Australia from 1960 to 1975.

Aborigines have played differing roles in Australia over the years, from sole inhabitants, to the su ... n a sense 'assimilation' was that aspect of the policy of protection concerned with the 'future' of Aborigines (mostly of 'mixed blood').in settled areas. In the 1950s 'assimilation' became a widely a ... Conference of Federal and State Ministers in these terms:The policy of assimilation means that all Aborigines and part-Aborigines are expected to attain the same manner of living as other Australians ...

(4 pages) 137 4 4.6 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Australian history.

in some way. Children collected paper clips and other sources of metal to donate to the war effort. Aborigines volunteered for the AIF and were helping in the big fight to stop the Japanese. Women wer ... ar effort by collecting paper clips and other metal for scraps and there was a restriction on paper.Aborigines weren't eligible for conscription cause they weren't classified as citizens. Aborigines w ...

(6 pages) 80 2 2.8 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Australia became a multi-ethnic country.

erica, Australia and many more other countries. The first people who migrated to Australia were the Aborigines and Torres Strait islander. They arrived in Australia between fifteen thousand and fifty ... st the people. This would cause racism and segregation in Australia.There was also an impact on the Aborigines communities. When the white people moved to Australia they disrupted the way the Aborigin ...

(4 pages) 39 0 3.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

The importance of land/country to australian aboriginals.

that is rarely understood by those of European descent. The land, or country, does not only sustain Aborigines in material ways, such as providing food and shelter, it also plays a major role in their ... uality, the importance of land is a result of the importance of Dreamtime. The dreaming explains to Aborigines how life began, and how all life is connected to the land - which is also seen as a livin ...

(7 pages) 136 0 3.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Transatlantic Encounters.

rtez conquered the Aztec Kingdom and enslaved the people to mine gold and work for him. Most of the aborigines had not died of war, they were too terrified of the Spaniards on horses, with shiny armor ... Spaniards on horses, with shiny armor, and they just threw down their weapons. The majority of the aborigines died from the work they were forced to do. "How many of the Indians died in extracting go ...

(2 pages) 32 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Aborigines Act 1902 This essay is about the "stolen Generaton" and the Act of Parliament Australia had enacted at the time.

Aborigines Act (WA). The Chief Protector is made the legal guardian of every Aboriginal and 'half-ca ... offspring -- Travelling inspector, James Isdell. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.The Aborigines Department of Western Australia was formed under the provisions of the Aborigines Act 189 ... ustralia was formed under the provisions of the Aborigines Act 1897. This was formed to replace the Aborigines Protection Board. The Department was headed by the Chief Protector of Aborigines, Henry P ...

(10 pages) 110 1 4.2 Nov/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Discuss the impact of the settlement of the white European settlers on the lifestyle and culture of the Aboriginal people.

mpact on the lifestyle and culture of the Aboriginal people.Before the arrival of the Europeans the Aborigines led a nomadic life. This meant that they did not always live in the same place. They made ... gos, wombats fish and birds, as other animals like sheep and cattle had not been introduced yet.The Aborigines lived as one with the land and were fully dependent on it for sources of food, shelter an ...

(2 pages) 50 1 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

"No Sugar" by Jack Davis and 7 Stages of Grieving by Debrah Mailman and Wesley Enoch- How do these reflect both social and cultural issues in Australia?

hite Australians are sensitive and distinctively aware of the social and cultural issues related to Aborigines. This must be credited to playwrights such as Jack Davis and Wesley Enoch&Deborah Mai ... No Sugar is the second play in a trilogy called " The First Born", which traces the history of the Aborigines in Western Australia from the first White settlement, or in their perspective, invasion, ...

(10 pages) 111 0 4.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Perceptions and Stereotypes in Colonial Art and How They Contributed to Cultural Conflict.

.The conflict between Europeans and the Aboriginals can be seen in the second picture. At first the Aborigines tolerated the settlers and sometimes welcomed them, but when it became apparent that they ...

(2 pages) 42 0 4.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

The Stolen Genreations- Tells the story of the Aboriginal stolen generations in Australia.

of the many atrocities committed by the European settlers. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Aborigines were seen by the settlers as a moronic and savage race that should either be educated as ... majority believed this was in the best interests of the child and would reduce the number of savage Aborigines who occasionally fought and, a lot of the time, killed whites.Research has also shown tha ...

(3 pages) 49 1 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Aboriginal injustices and breif history recap

as having and land rights.The most terrible injustice of all was the almost total dispossession of Aborigines from their lands, carried out in the spirit of freeing the land from a pest. Under Whitla ... Australian history two of the High Court judges, Deane and Gaudron, called the dispossession of the Aborigines a matter, in Australia, of unutterable shame. In the following year, at Redfern, the Prim ...

(2 pages) 40 1 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

The Cooking Methods of the Australian Aborigines including Examples

e food being cooked. Using a variety of timbers, twigs or leaves could change flavours or heat. The aborigines used hot stones to fry Bogong moths, banks of coals to cook marsupial rodents, larger sha ... a large temporary fire. They also used heat stones to open hard fruits and explode Acacia seeds.The aborigines used roasting on hot coals mainly for cooking flesh. These included most meats, fish and ...

(3 pages) 36 0 3.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Inequality to Aboriginal people in Australia

ia, since European people arrived there in 1788, they have discriminated against indigenous people, Aborigines (Kuhn, 1998: 30). The European invaders drove most of Aboriginal people out of the mainla ... fact that Quantas, Australia's national airline, had the total staff of as many as 13,000, only two Aborigines were employed. Furthermore, in the same year, no Aboriginal person was employed in any de ...

(4 pages) 142 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Explain why Aboriginal children of the stolen generations were removed from their parents.

s it was soon obvious that the Aboriginal race was not dying out and that the number of mixed-blood Aborigines was increasing. So the State and Federal governments introduced a policy of assimilation ...

(1 pages) 44 0 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History