Essays Tagged: "Tasmania"

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

om their parents, they have been humiliated. They have shot down 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 ... hite Australia was able to persue its crime until not one Aborigine remained alive on the island of Tasmania.' (Hardy 1968) (See Appendix C )Five thousand Aborigines occupied the island of Tasmania in ...

(4 pages) 106 1 4.0 Jul/1996

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

ESSAY QUESTION: In what ways does gender shape the nature of Universities in Australia. How does it shape your experience of university study? References included.

nstitution is also likely to be gendered.Staff at universities around Australia and particularly in Tasmania are predominantly male. So it could be said that if male staff dominate, then the informati ... es and background circumstances of men". (Burton, 1998, website)The management of the University of Tasmania is predominantly male, however women dominate in the traditionally female administration an ...

(5 pages) 51 0 3.0 May/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

The process of federation in Australia

ustralia, did not want to join other colonies that had convict pasts. The smaller colonies, such as Tasmania, feared that they would be swallowed up by the larger ones while the larger colonies though ... next year, the issue was put across most of Australia. However, only Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania voted in favour with the require majority. New South Wales still hung back and Queensland d ...

(3 pages) 81 0 3.6 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Australia's forests.

their beauty and rich array of life forms. Their diverse beauty ranges from the ancient forests of Tasmania, to the rainforests of Queensland, to the giants of southwest Western Australia. However, o ... Australia is one of the biggest limitations to how much paper can be recycled here. In places like Tasmania, Western Australia and the Northern Territory where the quantity of paper used is small and ...

(9 pages) 67 1 3.9 Jul/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

The Concilation and The National Picture.

white man, George Augustus Robinson, amidst a group of local, traditionally portrayed and behaving Tasmanian Aborigines.The main purpose of the text is to explain and present the initial reaction and ... the initial reaction and effect that occurred when George Robinson was first sent on his journey to Tasmania to conciliate with and relocate the Aborigines there. The text is showing what happened bef ...

(9 pages) 52 0 4.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Treatment of women in the 1800's In Australia.brief description of a woman living in victoria, australia in 1800's.

risoners back into the society) refused to help women.In 1893, Emma Williams came to Melbourne from Tasmania but there wasn't much work and life became increasingly difficult. She became pregnant and ...

(1 pages) 62 2 4.2 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

The Australian Rainforest (spaces for pictures/diagrams)

the southern hemisphere. Australia is also the only continent occupied entirely by a single nation. Tasmania, a small island that is off the southeast coast, is also a part of the continent of Austral ... contains six states; New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, WesternAustralia, and Tasmania. Australian coat of arms consists of a shield that has the badges of all of the six states ...

(28 pages) 82 2 4.8 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Australia

Australia, island continent located southeast of Asia and forming, withthe nearby island of Tasmania, the commenwealth of Australia, a selfgoverning member of the Commenwealth of Nations. The ... he commenwealth ofAustralia is made up of six states--News south Wales, Queensland, SouthAustralia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Wester n Australia--and twoterritories--the Australian Capital Territory and ...

(2 pages) 44 0 4.3 Jun/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Geography Essay on Tasmania, Australia. Essay includes details about landforms, a native animal, a native plant, 2 major cities of Tasmania

Geography Assignment on TasmaniaSome Major landforms of Tasmania are Cradle Mountain and Lake Pedder. These are being preser ... a ghost tour at Port Arthur. Port Arthur used to be a convict Settlement.Port Arthur is officially Tasmania's number one tourist attraction, and no visit to the state is complete without seeing it. P ... present. You'll guide's gripping narration of reported ghost sightings and unexplained occurrences.Tasmania is also known for its big surf spots. Early 2000 Line Up Surf Australia organised a surfing ...

(7 pages) 89 2 4.4 Jun/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Analyse the first chapter of Chloe Hooper's 'A Child's True Book of Crime'.

g in her first job teaching, a fourth grade class in Endport, a small town on the southern coast of Tasmania. Strangely childlike, Kate is embroiled in a love affair with the father of her most gifted ...

(3 pages) 12 0 0.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Abolishment Of Capital Punishment In Australia

f a crime by death. The death penalty was abolished in Queensland in 1922, New South Wales in 1955, Tasmania in 1968, Victoria in 1975, South Australia in 1976 and Western Australia in 1984. Since tha ...

(2 pages) 33 1 3.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Relaciones Canada - Australia - India

iados. La mayoría de los presos ingleses, que eran los rebeldes fueron enviados a la isla de Tasmania donde fueron aislados hasta de la misma colonia australiana. Los rebeldes franceses fueron ...

(16 pages) 13 0 0.0 May/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies

The Division Of Law-making Powers In Australia

a federated country, consisting of a Commonwealth Parliament and six State Parliaments these being Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia. The Division ... the change of the division of lawmaking power. One example is the Franklin River Dam Case where the Tasmanian Government challenged the Commonwealth Parliament in the High Court over the validity of t ...

(5 pages) 33 0 3.0 Jun/2001

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Cambourne's principles of learning

dertake this course started when a friend invited me to go diving for lobsters on the west coast of Tasmania. I was excited at the prospect but felt that correct training prior would be judicious; hen ...

(9 pages) 28 0 5.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Dingo

ing the sea. However it happened dingoes did very well in Australia. Their only competition was the Tasmanian devil, the thylacine, and the tiger cat. That competition is pobably what made these anima ... evil, the thylacine, and the tiger cat. That competition is pobably what made these animals move to Tasmania which the dingo never reached. Dingoes donÕt form packs like other wild dogs, ...

(2 pages) 1707 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Fence

tinent between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. The only other bordering countries are Tasmania and Indonesia. It is 7,686,850 sq. km. It is slightly smaller than the United States of Ame ...

(4 pages) 1135 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Teaching for Learning

(Department of Education, 2002: Department of Education, 2007).References:Department of Education, Tasmania. (2007). Planning. Teaching, Learning and Assessment Guide. Retrieved 19 July, 2007, from h ... t.htm.Department of Education. (2002). Essential Learnings Framework. Hobart: Printing Authority of Tasmania.Groundwater-Smith, S., Ewing, R., & Le Cornu, R. (2006). Teaching: Challenges and dilem ...

(2 pages) 41 0 0.0 Mar/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

An essay on the Australian pattern of climate and vegetation

show, the wettestparts of Australia are the northern and easterncoastal areas and the west coast of Tasmania.The northern part of Australia generally has asummer rainfall maximum. In summer, a trougho ... cold fronts passthrough. The heaviest rain falls on the coastalmargins, including the west coast of Tasmania.The east coast receives rainfall throughout theyear. Much of this rain is brought by moist ...

(2 pages) 2135 0 0.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Aboriginal Heritage and the Role of Indigenous Peoples, Past and Present:Frontier Warfare

has been minimised in mainstream histories, particularly between the pastoralists and the tribes of Tasmania, and more recently in the accounts of Australian historian, Keith Windschuttle. This is to ... ny have seen the proclamation of war by Governor Arthur and the subsequent removal of all surviving Tasmanian Aborigines to a reservation, as the genocide of an ancient race, though there are some who ...

(6 pages) 19 0 0.0 May/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Australian Federationdiscuss Arguments Used For and Against the Idea of Federation in the Late Nineteenth Century.

, which made transport and communication between the colonies very difficult. Western Australia and Tasmania felt particularly isolated from other colonies and that federation would bring them further ...

(3 pages) 39 0 0.0 May/2010

Subjects: History Term Papers