The "Stolen Generation" The "Stolen Generation" means the practice of removing part Aboriginal children from their original families and culture. The Stolen Generation occurred in the years 1804 to 1969. One hundred thousand half or quarter cast children were taken away. Half ...

Stolen Generation The role a family plays in bring up a child is: caring for them, protecting them, educating in behavior and customs of their social culture. Aboriginal families are very similar with a couple of additional roles. They are: feelings of kinship (bonding with their extended family) ...

Phillip Noyce's 'Rabbit Proof Fence' expresses many of the values and attitudes regarding respect and dignity. This is clearly shown by the unjust policy enforced by the government during the 1930's with the mistreatment of the aboriginal people. Using the Molly, Daisy and Gra...

Aboriginal have began to live in Australia nearly about 1 million years ago. Some people believe that originally came from different parts of the world. And migrate to Australia. When they came to Australia they became to developed many different cultures and traditions in which some of them we no l...

The Terrible Struggle In Rabbit Proof Fence, it tells of tragic and untold stories of the "stolen generation", the estimated 30,000 Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their parents by Australian authorities between 1900 and the late 1960s. The film takes place ...

From the earliest days of British occupation of Australia, the Government allowed the removal of Aboriginal children from their families. These children are known as the 'stolen generation.' They were raised in institutions, or fostered out to white families. Between 1910 and 1970 up to 1...

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...

"Drama and Theatre in their content and style reflect the society from which they spring" The issues and happenings of contemporary Australia are reflected in contemporary Australian Theatre, the same way as Shakespeare was reflected in Elizabethan Theatre in the 18th Century. The idea ...

The harsh environment and climate of Australia, as well as the number of cultures significantly effected the development of Christianity in Australia. Australia was a dry, hot content with harsh hot winds, floods and bushfires, occupied by a race which showed an inseparable connection to the land; ...

HISTORY The Empire or more commonly known as the West has had a dramatic influence on the world and particularly the Japanese and aboriginal cultures. The western imperialists colonised many countries around the world and played major rolls in technological advancements in other cultures. The W...

Residental Schools Long before Europeans came to North America, aboriginal people had a highly developed system of education. There was a great deal for aboriginal children to learn before they could survive on their own. Aboriginal elders and parents passed on not only survival skills to their ...

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...

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...