... of unemployment, crime, alcoholism and violence among aborigines, and to dependency on welfare. Australia is comprised of a population of 18 million with a 12 % aboriginal population. In Western Australia we have a population of approx. 2.5 million with 75, 000 aboriginal people. Western Australia is one of most affected states by aborigines with the largest amount of aborigines and aboriginal crime. Our jails are over- ... not relevant to their lives or culture. It's not just the young aborigines the government is failing it's also the old, Many older aborigines had been discouraged fro...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... "Deadly Unna" and "Redfern at Night" both examine the divisions which exist between the black and white communities, inevitably leading to discrimination. The Aborigines in "Deadly Unna" are separate to the whites in many instances in the novel, due to the cultural differences and their position in society. ... the novel is set in recent times on a peninsula in South Australia. Blacky and his family live in the 'the Port' where the whites, or Goonyas, live. Dumby lives out at 'the Point' with the Nungas, the Aborigines. Both communities lead a very separate and different existence. Even...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... is through radical social progressions that our society is slowly cleansing the doors of perception and witnessing the horrible acts of injustice which are infinite (Australia's personal experience of this is dealing with "the stolen generation" of Aborigines). However through cleansing we can also learn to make personal peace infinite and the possibilities that people from traditionally deprived backgrounds are now faced ... ...

• Word Count: 2278
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate