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Aboriginal People Four Percent
600 wordsIn recent years, increasing awareness of exploitation of indigenous culture and intellectual property has led to recognition of the need for more effective protection of indigenous rights in Australia. Aborigines, the indigenous people of Australia, are severely disadvantaged in terms of poverty, poor health, over-representation in the prisons, employment opportunity, and housing. There have been many reports, inquires and decisions about the need for more effective protection for indigenous cul...
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Point Of View Race And Gender
1,203 wordsThea Astley's Its Raining in Mango (1987) is a story of Australian history told through five generations of the Laffey family. Astley introduces several issues to the reader that were and still are part of Australian society. Through the use of narrative techniques including characterisation, narrative point of view and naming, Astley is able to position the reader to challenge such societal ideologies, and instead support the thoughts and ideas expressed by the strong and dominant characters in...
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Aboriginal Customary Laws And Australian Contemporary
589 wordsAboriginal customary laws, before white settlement in 1788, were considered primitive by the British, if considered at all. But Aboriginal laws and customs had lasted hundreds of years, based on traditions such as kinship ties and rituals. These laws were formed by ancestors, spirits, and Aboriginal beliefs, and were passed down the generations by word-of-mouth instead of written down. Being over 500 tribes (each with it's own clans) in Australia at one point, there were many variations to their...
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European Cultural Hegemony And Australian Aboriginals
1,120 wordsThe relationship between the indigenous people of Australia and their native lands are essential to their traditional culture. The colonization of their nations by Europeans has lead to a destruction of this relationship and therefore of indigenous cultural practices and norms. This process was predicated upon European cultural norms and established a cultural hegemony of European culture over indigenous culture. The effects of this cultural hegemony by mainstream Australia can be observed throu...
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Death And Dying Terminally Ill
1,307 words... italy rights" issue The Commonwealth parliament considered the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act to represent a basic shift in Australia's ethos and social fabric. It had additional national significance as all Australians, indeed all people, could have used the Act. It therefore became not just a matter for the people of the Northern Territory, but a matter concerning all people of Australia. The Constitutional framework of Australia divides legislative responsibility between the States and ...
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Dead Heart Representation Of White Australian Aboriginal Law
661 wordsThe movie Dead Heart uses the background of a murder mystery to further explore this complex issue of Aboriginal culture and traditions and the inevitable clash that results when white Australians try to impose their own system of beliefs, values and history upon Aboriginal people. The film is set in the small aboriginal community of Wala Wala, in remote outback Australia, in which lies the significance of the title of the film. A Local town cop by the name of Ray Lorkin tries to maintain some b...
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Indigenous Australians Substance Abuse
1,952 wordsIndigenous Australians by examining the portrayal of Aboriginality by Indigenous and Non-Indigenous peoples through the use of Films. The films that were used for this study were Stephen Johnsons Yolngu Boy, Bruce Beresford's Fringe Dwellers and Rachel Perkins Radiance. Throughout the years many Australian films have been made depicting Aboriginal people and their Aboriginality. Three such films are Stephen Johnsons Yolngu Boy, Rachel Perkins, who is an Indigenous person, Radiance and Bruce Bere...
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The Canadian Justice System V S Aboriginal People
565 wordsTopic: Be it resolved that the Canadian justice system be significantly changed. The Canadian justice system has failed the Canadian people. It has failed the aboriginal people of this nation on a massive scale. The flawed justice system has been insensitive and inaccessible, and has arrested and imprisoned aboriginal people in grossly disproportionate numbers. Aboriginal people who are arrested are more likely to be denied bail, spend less time with their lawyers, and if convicted, are more lik...
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Native Title Australian Government
1,029 words... defined. web This creates a serious limitation within the Native Title Act since Indigenous communities would cross over and often share sections of land within Australia. This leads to Native Title negotiations, on whose party should obtain rights to the land. These Land right negotiations can continue for years often slowing down and delaying the process of claiming the right to Native Title over Australian land. This is also a very costly process. According to the High Court, "Native Titl...
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Plants And Animals Australian Aborigines
1,474 wordsInvestigative Task- Meaning of Art To be honest, every person asked would define art in his or her own way, and often the definitions made would significantly differ one from another. These differences can be a result of cultural diversities, different trends, or just different time spans. Nevertheless, there should be a definition universally acceptable for any culture and any epoch. Art can be defined as any human creation that contains an idea other than its utilitarian purpose. Anything can ...
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Social Issues Human Values
1,187 wordsThe Community Theatre play Bran Nue Dae, into which Asian-aboriginal writer / composer /director Jimmy Chi incorporated his own life experiences of relationships, drugs and the law, abused indigenous land rights, self discovery and religion, achieved its goal to express the message of aboriginal perspective of everyday social issues. This successful and effective production satisfies the goals of community theatre, giving the aboriginal people a voice through theatre and song, thus fulfilling Ch...
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000 Years Ago Stone Tools
3,216 wordsTroublesome Questions In 1830 Mr. Rankin tied a rope around a projection out of a rock face in order to lower himself into Wellington Cave (Horton, 1980). The projection turned out to be the bone of a giant extinct marsupial. It was to be the first discovery of a great range of giant marsupials. Were these animals extinct? ? Horton (1980), describes how Leichhart believed that on his journeys to northern Australia he would find Diprotodon still roaming over the land. We now know that he was prob...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Terminally Ill
2,607 wordsWhen we hear the phrase voluntary euthanasia people generally think of one of two things: the active termination of life at the patients or the Nazi extermination program of murder. Many people have beliefs about whether euthanasia is right or wrong, often without being able to define it clearly. Some people take an extreme view, while many fall somewhere between the two camps. The derivation means gentle and easy death coming from the Greek words, eu thanatos. Euthanasia was formerly called mer...
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Correctional Facilities Gender Race
3,763 wordsWhy are crime rates higher among some social groups than the others? Are some groups more prone to crime, or are they in situations more conducive to crime? Many factors can influence a person to commit a crime, but is there a common trait that leads people down the road to actually committing a crime. Some traits that can influence criminal behavior are: Families, Economic status, Gender, Race, and Age. FAMILIES: MARRIAGE Married life domesticates but also can cause strain and difficulties. The...
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Historical Truth Doesn T
607 wordsDiscoveries reveal things that we often would prefer to keep hidden. Discuss the concept of Discovery and the effects it has on those who are involved. You must refer to your set text and supplementary material which you have studied in relation to this topic. The topic discovery involves the reviling of past things that were previously unknown. These truths can range from physical objects to self-awareness, from new knowledge to hidden memory. However, discovery can be such a powerful thing tha...
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Lung Cancer Mother Died
1,168 wordsCathy Freeman was born in Mackay in Queensland in 1973. She is a very good runner and won a scholarship to boarding school where she was able to have professional coaching. Freeman is the first Aboriginal sprinter to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games (1994). She also won a silver medal in the 1996 Olympic Games. She is very proud of her Aboriginal background and has carried the Australian and the Aboriginal flags around the track after winning a race. She has often appeared on televisio...
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Means Of Production Socially Constructed
2,259 wordsA world of system designed to keep people in unjust and unequal positions is held in place by several interrelated expression of power over: political power, economic power, physical force, and ideological power (Bishop, 1994: 36). So, we can say power is defined as a possession of control, authority or influence over others. In terms of power of dominant groups over subordinate groups, we define power as domination of one group of people over another in major important spheres of life. Power in...
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Indigenous Australians Native Title
4,138 wordsAustralia Territory Continent Introduction [ 1. 1 ] Australia has always been regarded as terra nucleus under International Law. Terra nucleus is a territory belonging to no state, that is, territory not inhabited by a community with a social and political organisation. In International Law, effective occupation is the traditional mode of extending sovereignty over terra nullify 1. In 1788, on the advent of discovery, the British became legal occupiers of Australia. Coincidence with the British ...
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Andro Centric Anthropological Perspectives
5,540 wordsIn this essay I will look at whether the inequality between men and women is a human universal, or whether there are or have been societies in which women shared power equally with men, or even exercised power over them. In order to do so, I will look at the writings of a number of anthropologists. In The Subordinance of Women: A Problematic Universal, author Ruth Bleier indicates that a central premise in the biological explanations inequality between women and men in present-day cultures, is t...
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United States Of America Lot Of Money
1,008 wordsShould There Be Aboriginal Self-Government In Canada/United Should There Be Aboriginal Self-Government In Canada/United States Of America? Should There Be Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada/United States of America? The question that is brought up is not that of sex, but it is that of aboriginals in Canada. The question that is asked is should there be an aboriginal self-government? If the government were to go ahead and give the natives there own government they would be losing money and woul...
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