An Australian film Rabbit Proof Fence directed by Philip Noyce is reliable to an historian studying the Protection policies of the Australian Government during the 1930's in that it tells a true story about three Aboriginal children who were taken away from their families because they were half-cast...

Judith Wright is a respected Australian poet is also known as a conservationist and protester. Her poetry has captured the most amazing imagery of Australian Culture. For Australian students to understand their own culture and history it is necessary to study the best poetry and Judith Wright's...

Some of the other policies and practices that have been deeply entrenched within the fabric of Australian society since invasion, and of which have been constantly employed to reinstate socio-economic domination by 'mainstream' society include, the ideals of terra nullius, dispossession, ...

Introduction Racism is a weapon used by those who are in a position of assumed power, against those with obvious cultural characteristics, seen as inferior. Racism hurts the victim both physically and emotionally and often has serious consequences as serious as death as a result of murder or suic...

HISTORY ASSIGNMENT: ABORIGINAL POLICIES The discrimination against the Aborigines of Australia was not unheard of in the 20th century. The laws at that time, which were regarding to Aborigines, were harsh and gave them no rights or justice. This led to massive declines through the early parts of t...

Bringing Worlds Together Juanita Batzibal and Medarda Castro are Mayan Indigenous women working on Indigenous rights and identity with Community Aid Abroad-Oxfam's Guatemalan program. They visited Australia in July 2000 to make connections with our Indigenous Australia program in south-west Western...

Aboriginal Australia by Jack Davis, Our Village by Wopko Jensma, and Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali's Nightfall in Soweto all explore the experiences of the oppressed. Each poet does this in their own unique way – exploring related themes and using various poetic techniques. Despite these diffe...

For approximately 65 Thousand years, the Australian Aborigines have been and had a culture, giving them the longest cultural background in the history of the world. This culture was and is the centre of the Aboriginal religion, spirit, soul and life, The Dreaming. The Dreaming can be and is defi...

Invasion, Settlement or Colonisation For over 60,000 years Aboriginal people lived on this continent, owning, caring for and being sustained by the land. With their deep knowledge of nature and respect for the environment in which they lived, they developed a successful economy and a rich spiritual...

The powerpoint attached to this report on Indigenous service provision in Kalgoorlie (Goldfields), demonstrates that a plethora of knowledge can be obtained prior to engaging with any community by looking beneath the surface. A practitioner must make an effort to fully understand the historical issu...

European farming practices are quite different to that of Aboriginal land management practices. European farming yield produce through the practices of cultivation of crops and the breeding and raising of livestock. This kind of farming was very land intensive and required vast amounts of land. Earl...