... why this federation took so long to happen? Maybe it was because of the considerations of the benefits of federation, not just for the Australian people, but also for each and every colony. What each and every colony were to benefit from federation. Some obvious points are; sence ... federation. During the 2nd generation of the Englishmen in Australia, all Australians felt a sence of nationalism. They wanted to be an Australian, source 1, shows an artist depicting Australian outback, unlike any English painting before. Quote "we have learnt our home is Australia" given by the assessmen...

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... white "protectors" _ needed permits to move _ children could be removed from their parents at the discretion of white authorities _ some reserves still existed in the 1980s in Queensland _ government policy depended on Christian missions to carry out its work _ Wesleyans, Catholics, the future Uniting church, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans and Baptists covered Australia _ opinion over the effect of missions ... land _ ownership of land by Western methods is sometimes compensation for loss of land in the past _ clash with mining companies Native Title " a term used by the Australian h...

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... Within this broad framework, each individual and group is welcome to make a contribution to the common good. The term Australian Multiculturalism summarises the way we address the challenges and opportunities of our cultural diversity. The key statement of Government multicultural policy is Multicultural Australia: United in Diversity (May 2003). It updates the 1999 New Agenda for Multicultural Australia ... policy for 2003-2006 with a specific emphasis on community harmonyAustralian multiculturalism is the philosophy, underlying Government policy and programs, that recognises, accepts, ...

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... in the 1830's and ending in the early 1970's, many children were taken from their families in an attempt to eradicate the Aboriginal race and culture, ordered by the Australian Government at the time. The Governments policies and practices regarding the removal of children, their treatment and the continuing effects cannot be resolved, despite the occurrence of the National Inquiry. ... The Australian Government's policy and practice of removing aboriginal children from their families was in place throughout the country during the 1830's until the 1970's. There was a massive impact on A...

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... be deeply emotionally scarring and would certainly have some bearing on modern Aboriginal problems. Many Aborigines that were part of the stolen generation are now actively seeking compensation from the Australian government. It was not until 1969 that officials lost the right to remove Aboriginal children from their families, but the effects of how the assimilation program changed Aboriginal society are still ... for Aborigine rights and compensation etc. Aborigines have begun to make headway in reclaiming rights to what is theirs, especially land rights. Land-rights acts were put forw...

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... reserves were established on which Aborigines lived, with few opportunities for education (mainly in segregated schools) and employment, without rights of citizenship and with a dependence on the Government of Australia. Although protection policies were considered an improvement, it made Aboriginal people dependent on the administrators of reserves. They could not leave the reserves without permission. The ... expedition shot dead at least 32 Aborigines. A court of inquiry found the action ˜justified'. The Aborigines who survived were also refused legal aid by the Federal government. ...

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... traditional lifestyle because the British never settled the region. But for most of the Australian Aborigines, they have been pushed onto reservations far from home, and could not live without support from the government. Without wild game and water, their quality of life quickly dropped. Case Study ... DVD). Economic Issues: In recent history, Native peoples in the Americas and Australia were given reservations (plots of land set aside by the government for the sole use of Aboriginals). In Africa, centuries of foreign control and industrialization has eradicated most of the traditional c...

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... battling for since their home, for over 40,000 years was taken away. In 1788 when Britain established the first European settlement on Australian soil, there were at least 300,000 Aboriginal people here, possibly very many more. It is estimated that there were about 600 different ... consultation of Aboriginal people. In other words though awe know best? approach. If Aboriginal Australians had been consulted, they would have informed the government that they wanted rights. Rights that was at least equal to other Australians, including the right to their identity as descendants of the firs...

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... battling for since their home, for over 40,000 years was taken away. In 1788 when Britain established the first European settlement on Australian soil, there were at least 300,000 Aboriginal people here, possibly very many more. It is estimated that there were about 600 different ... of Aboriginal people. In other words though a we know best? aaproach. If Aboriginal Australians had been consulted, they would have informed the government that they wanted rights. Rights that was at least equal to other Australians, including the right to their identity as descendants of the first-people .....

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... and connections which Aboriginal children and families require'. (Bridge, Freeburn, 2001). The concept of Aboriginality is the survival, identity, and the cultural diversity of Australian Aborigines. The Australian Aborigines have been on this Australian land for over 40,000 years. The word ˜Indigenous' refers of the Torres Strait Islanders people and Aboriginal people, though seen as the one word ... first step in embracing all Australians, to close the gap having, mutual respect and equal opportunities. Though in 2013 the Aborigines still have only two members in the federal governmen...

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... for windows, without floors, lighting, sanitation, furniture or cooking facilities. Social service payments (old age pension etc. ) were paid into the pastoral company's funds together with a Federal Government subsidies for the worker's dependents. When the Gurindji demands were understood, they attracted strong support from the public both overseas and in Australia and opposition from the ... Government and pastoralists. In spite the Government tried to cut off means of obtaining food supplies, threatening evictions and bribery with offers of relatively attractive houses which the Gov...

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Indigenous people in Australia face many challenges in today's society such as discrimination, prejudice and racism. The movie The Sapphires confronts many of these issues. The Sapphires is an Australian musical comedy-drama film directed by Wayne Blair released in 2012. The Sapphires centers around four indigenous women who are discovered by a talent scout and form a music group named The ... Gail accuses Kay of abandoning her people. After the fight Gail reveals in a flashback that she feels partly guilty about what happened to Kay. As Kay had a non-Aboriginal father, government policy at ...

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... and assimilation policies, racial prejudice and discrimination against the Aborigines. It is fair to say that the Australian government over the past century has done very little to ensure the equilibrium of the society. During the 1800s, the Government set in "Protection polices- for the Aborigines. This was, in my opinion, a robbery of ... by Aborigines were not written in the history books until 1960s. Prior to that, the natives' opinions were ignored. The government was concerned that Aborigines were not part of the Australian population, and thus should be excluded from any politica...

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The term Stolen Generation refers to the removal of Aboriginal children from their families by Australian government agencies and church missions between approximately 1900 and 1972. According to the official government report, at least 30000 children were removed from their parents. Percentage estimates were given that 10-30% of all Aboriginal children born during the seventy-year period were removed. Although ... skinned Aboriginals, so they could marry they to white people, and they would have a white child. A man called A.O. Neville was put in charge of all Aboriginals in Australia by th...

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... other minerals at sites precious to the Aboriginal people. This attitude that the Whites adopted concerning Holy Land is prominent in this cartoon. The introduction of European diseases to the Australian environment killed many Aboriginals. Fifty percent of indigenous people were annihilated in Sydney alone. The Ku-RingGai Aboriginals are an example of this. An extract from the journal of Captain ... . In 1972, Aboriginals established the Tent Embassy on the grass of Parliament House in Canberra in protest. This gained much media attention and worldwide awareness. It caused embarrassment...

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... is essential to life and the Dreaming. This caused debate among indigenous people who wanted their land back to practise religious obligations, the Australian government and the Australian justice system. The most common case and the case that rewrote the Australian common law was Mabo. The Meriam people led by Eddie Mabo were on a crusade to overturn the doctrine Terra Nullius. The Mabo case ... was a boost in the struggle for land ownership for the indigenous. It ruled that indigenous ownership of the land had survived where it hadn't been extinguished by a valid act of government and...

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... meeting with Rex Battarbee, a well-known Melbourne artist who specialized in watercolours and was the first European to paint the beauty of the central Australian Desert. Battarbee and European artist John A. Gardner held an exhibition of their paintings of the Macdonnell Ranges at the Hermannsburg Mission Station in 1934 ... Gallery of South Australia bought one of his paintings in 1939. This was the first watercolour by an Aboriginal to be bought by an Australian Gallery. Watercolour paper was in short supply during the war, but Namatjira smoothed out slices of beanwood using the panel...

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... ongoing survival of Aboriginals within Western society. The Europeans are constantly seen to manipulate the Aboriginals for their own benefits, as white administrators and police implement racist policies through the government, continually treating Aboriginals with contempt. Racism as practised against Aborigines, has been defined as; "Conscious or unconscious belief in the inherent superiority of people whose descent is of ... racism in official ranks as the town wants to be devoid of all things Aboriginal (In its ploy to sway coming elections). Realising he is relatively powerless unde...

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... the old, Many older aborigines had been discouraged from university due to Federal Government cuts to the Abstudy allowance in January Last year. Racism would continue in Australia until mandatory sentencing laws are abolished and a formal report apology is given to the stolen generations. Australian's are reluctant to take the next step in the reconciliation process and deliver equality ... needs to be done to combat racism in Australia but the government refuses to appologise to indigenous Australians for past injustices. If the reconciliation process in any country is to have any tru...

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... indigenous aborigine music and dialogue to emphasize the conflict that happens when the three half-aboriginal girls are taken away from their mother by the Australian authorities. These techniques show the audience the damage done to aboriginal families and their culture. After Riggs is instructed to capture Molly, Gracie ... . From there, loud drum music is applied to reinforce the tense atmosphere as well as to highlight Riggs' power as the representative of government. It is also inevitable because it foreshadows the conflict between Maude and Riggs that later happens in the film. The...

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... community. One of the first ever attempts to address some of the problems indigenous people faced was in the form of policy, which nowadays is known as the Stolen Generation. Australian governments, as a practice and as a policy, removed part-Aboriginal children from their mothers, parents, families and communities, often by force. In around 60 years, over 100,000 ... from their families faced physical mistreatment, sexual exploitation and more extreme forms of humiliation. Therefore this attempt by the Australian society to address indigenous problems, was unsuccessful, and in some as...

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... These were: *Dispossession 1788-1880s - this involved the hand over of land to the white for settlement. *Segregation 1890s-1950s *Assimilation 1930s-1970s - this became an act by the government to remove indigenous people from their native way of life and into a non-indigenous society. This involved the kidnapping of many indigenous children, especially those considered "half-caste", and placing ... health sector only. Therefore, it is required that promotional material be passed around to governments, health as well as other sectors of economic and social issues, voluntary organizatio...

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... ). Although these acts point towards the adoption of a policy of self determination, they do not provide the Aboriginal people the opportunity of self government (Lovatt 1993 139). Land rights are about land but for all indigenous people, and especially Australian Aborigines, it is more than this. It is everything that goes with the land (Mudge 1997 53) The High Court's decision in ... the Mabo case on 3 June 1992 rewrote the Australian common law and gave a massive boost to the struggle for the recognition of Aboriginal land rights. It handed down a decision that dismissed the European ...

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... people in Australia back about 50,000 years. It has been estimated that between 300,000 and 750,000 Aboriginal people were living in Australian in 1788. Each group had spiritual and economic links with particular areas of land. These groups had well defined rules which regulated the ... which the people led their lives, which provided a stable order of society and was remarkably free from the vagaries of personal whim or influence...a government of laws, and not of men'. British colonisation and sovereignty British claims of sovereignty were made over different parts of Australia between ...

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... successful in changing the lives of many for the better already.  We do agree that changes should be made to create more equal living rights among every Australian, not just the indigenous, but any Australian citizen. We feel there are better ways to go about it like a treaty even. And we do agree there are still some unjust living conditions in Australia ... be spent on improving the lives of indigenous Australians in other, more effective ways, ways that will actually make a difference. This would also be wasting a lot of time of the government and politicians, time that would be tak...

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