... to keep people who were not from a white European background out of the country. The laws also restricted the lives of people who were not white and who were already living in Australia. At the time, many Australians believed that this white Australia' policy ... would be the only way to keep large parts of Australian society similar to Britain. However more and more Australians argued against this racist policy, especially in the years after World War Two. Other countries also criticised Australia's racism. Immigration restrictions were gradually eased as Australians began to be less f...

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... country during the 1830's until the 1970's. There was a massive impact on Aboriginals with one particular policy the Australian Government introduced, the policy of "Assimilation". This policy encouraged many Aboriginal people to give up there traditional lifestyle, move in white Australian towns and cities, were made it forget there culture and language and basically were expected to become ... accident, such as breaking a window, they were either beaten up or lashed. These treatments towards the stolen children also happened to children that were adopted or fostered out to white Austra...

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... language along with their lifestyle has been corrupted by their dependency on European settlers. The contrast between living conditions and legal rights between white and black Australians is also relevant to the construction and dramatic success of the play, as it sets up an appalling social hierarchy purely ... their traditional lifestyles without European influence, is has been made impossible by the settlers. There is a huge contrast between the living conditions of the white people in the play and the aboriginals. When Neville says "There will be no privileges from now on" Jimmy use...

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... interconnection between the countries by mutual military agreements and business relationships. This liberal view of the national defence strategy was favoured during the early 2000s by updating the Defence White Paper of Australia (with the exception of 2009 when certain ideas of defender-regionalists were implemented).2 Currently the government of Australia still relies on this liberal theory and ... especially its alliance with the USA. Next update of White Paper of Australia is scheduled for 2015.3 Despite numerous discussions about the national security politics, Australia remains r...

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... the Commonwealth franchise. Treatment of Aborigines in the states varied. In Western Australia and Queensland they were perceived as a threat by many white pastoralists and were subjected often to acts of pure violence. Confrontations between white people and Aborigines on the Canning stock route were frequent, with the former spearing thousands of cattle and the latter engaging in savage retaliation. ... South Wales, many Aborigines were forced by the police to move back to the reserves, the aim being to prevent them from claiming social welfare benefits Racist attitudes by white peopl...

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... federation Australia was a monocultural society, its population consisting of 95% British and Irish ancestry. Britain was seen as our mother country and the majority of people were willing to keep it that way. It is due to this that most Australian citizens opposed non-white immigration, to preserve British culture and traditions as the dominant influence in Australia. Thus the ... the "yellow peril. We face the gloomy future of being a small nation surrounded by many millions of other people looking enviously at our large continent" ... Politicians harbouring xenophobic attitudes once a...

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... is controlled by turgor pressure. Elongate leaf tips may serve to draw water off wet leaves, permitting respiration. New leaves in many plants are without chlorophyll (they look red or white) until they have grown to full size and have survived potential herbivore browsing. Extensive buttresses furnish support necessary because root systems are shallow, extending laterally to tap the surface layer ... , with palms (some of them climbing) and bamboos often more prominent than on other continents. Ferns and screw-pines are prominent as epiphytes, in lieu of bromeliads. There are special "w...

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... prone to risks of re-infection." Richard Von Weiszaecker, former President of the Federal Republic of Germany Very few people use the word genocide when discussing the strife the Australian indigenous people endured. Almost all historians of the Aboriginal experience, black and white, avoid it. Typically, they write about pacifying, killing, cleansing, excluding, exterminating, starving, poisoning, shooting, beheading ... European settlement -Britain's latest penal colony - was established at what is now Sydney. The effects were catastrophic. With the convicts, soldiers and settlers came ...

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... not think anyone has the right to label anyone for anything even if it is of a wrong doing so why do white people. Why does our community look for a black label as an answer for a crime? Why do we label our indigenous people? Is it fair to judge somebody because of his or her colour or race? Just because they are different from ... of the differences in attitudes towards each other's cultures. That's one of the reasons why the start of racism eventually broke out between the societies. White people also forced ways and customs on aborigines because the white people wanted them to be mor...

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... Bind. Another artist who reveals his thoughts and emotions on how society treats individuals indifferently is Gordon Bennett, an Australian Indigenous artist who illustrates how the Indigenous people of Australia are disregarded by the white Australian society. Gordon Bennet is an Aboriginal Australian artist who was born in 1955 in Monto, Queensland. He is regarded as a significant figure in contemporary ... Growing up, Bennett was confronted by images of Aboriginal Australians inflicting harm on others and acting in a violent matter. This was how the white Australian population perceiv...

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... them. The Aborigines were not only stripped of their land and rights but were also abused and discriminated. Since then there have been many attempts by the white population to address the problems that indigenous people faced in our society. Many attempts underwent such as reconciliation, affirmative action, mandatory sentencing, the development of indigenous legal rights, and the Stolen Generation. ... Aboriginal legal and status rights, as well as giving land rights and claims to the Aborigines. The next and probably most important attempt to address problems faced by indigenous peop...

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... not be asked that often because everybody would know what the identity is. Obviously this problem shows, that many people have different views of what the identity is and have not found a single one yet. Section 1: Traditional identity Historians such as Richard White (2) argue that Australian national identity has been constructed over the past 200 years from popular images and myths. ... the first time. During that time, the prevailing sense of Australian national identity was British and thus white European. In the 1890's all governments and all mainstream political parties establishe...

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... about a person eg. Sexual preference, religion etc and by using the preconceived images and thoughts that have been associated with that minority group, people develop stereotypical ideas about each other. Stereotypes are often based on a standard that society provides. This standard is called the "norm" and ... while some of it can be positive misconceptions, the ones that the women in the texts are exposed to are mostly negative. The common "white" view of Aboriginal women that is expressed in the play "What do they call me?" is that " their spitting, swearing at strangers, ... serve B...

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... be circulated in the colony. It dealt with legal news, farming news and other areas of interest for the colonisers. Of course, it was aimed only at educated white colonials and not indigenous people or convicts. Despite starting as a government controlled newspaper, by 1824, the year that The Australian was started, all government ownership of the press has ceased and private owners ... US television news networks, in which he urged more violence against Americans, resulted in the decision to edit all further messages from bin Laden and other terrorist groups as the White house had "res...

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... settlers. There was approximately 350,000 Aborigines in Australia in the late 18th Century, a number which had dropped significantly by the start of the 20th Century, leading many of the white population of Australia to believe that the Aborigines would eventually die out. So, what changed for the Aborigines? An ideal place to begin would be with assimilation of Aborigines in ... Australia. This was effectively an attempt to integrate Aborigines (and eventually wipe them out) into white Australian society by taking children from their families and placing them with missions or with whit...

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... in Aboriginal history. It was the beginning of the righting of the wrongs that had been committed against the Australian indigenous population since the arrival of white settlers. The referendum was the first time that Aboriginal people were fully acknowledged as Australian citizens which means it was the first time they where counted as having rights, freedoms, duties and responsibilities. Since ... sacred land returned to them. It was also in these next few years that people became more racist towards the Aboriginals and the people began to voice their opinions in relation to the abor...

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... emulate the highlights of Australian impressionism. The aims and practices of Australian photographers was to create a black and white image conveying a sentimental, narrative, romantic, picturesque images of Australia. To gain recognition they emulated popular painting styles by taking shots of landscape, Australian people and the nationalistic ideas, by taking shots from eye level, using soft focus and sometimes boiling there negatives to ... age. I Max Dupain is an Australian Modernist with the talent to create a powerful, pure and simple black and white image. He along with David Mo...

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... onwards, things such as the war, foreign affairs (such as the period of communism), immigration and trade have changed the policies and attitudes of the Australian people, which were in place from federation (1901) to the beginning of the war. World War 2 did not change Australian attitudes so much as it ... reinforced them. For a long time there was a fear among the Australian people of Asian invasion, firstly from the Chinese when they flocked to Australia during the gold rush, and then from the Japanese after World War 1, nicknamed the ... did university with these students saw that ...

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... British thought that the natives were uncivilised and colonised Australia under the term "Terra Nullias" meaning uninhabited land. Since Europe was mostly or all white, and Australia was governed by Britain, most of the migrants were white. The whites also had all the rights and controlled all forms of structure in the society, and to ensure that this continued the government ... result. This time other Europeans such as the Dutch, Italians and Greeks were included, but no Asians.The unforgettable lines stated by an Immigration minister, "Two wongs do not make a white" say everything abo...

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... famous theory is called the theory of differential association. It covers criminal acts from traditional street crimes to white-collar crime and juvenile delinquency. The exchange theory is based on the premise that people act according to a system of rewards or punishments. The exchange theory, as applied to bullying behavior, is ... determination of costs and rewards. Violence is an everyday part of our existence. Video games and their graphic depiction of violence also may desensitize people to the effects of violence and promote an attitude that rewards aggressive behavior in our soc...

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What are the difference between Aboriginal customary laws and Australian contemporary laws? Aboriginal customary laws, before white settlement in 1788, were considered primitive by the British, if considered at all. But Aboriginal laws and customs ... variations to their guidelines, customised to each area of the land. Although the laws varied throughout the ages, this way of life remained until white settlement. The roots of Australian laws are similar to traditional Aboriginal laws, dating back to before the Norman Conquest in 1066, where each separate ... , acceptable behaviour, and adequ...

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... , Hope is again perhaps usually remembered for some of his more cutting comments, such as his description of the Jindyworobaks as "the Boy Scout School of Poetry" or of Patrick White's style as "pretentious and illiterate verbal sludge". At much the same time as he penned that last notorious put down, however, Hope hailed Judith Wright as "the poet of a new ... collection The Wandering Islands was when published in the middle of the conservative 1950s. I am delighted to be able to remember them both as dancers as well as writers, as people who, though in different ways, enjoyed life to t...

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... . The encroachment into their lands by farmers stealing native land and destroying native flora and fauna lead to starvation in some cases. Chinese immigrants also had relations with the indigenous people of Australia. The Chinese Whether as employers, spouses; in harmony or in conflict had a influence on the aborigines in some way. Little public interest had been taken in this group ... . The overall impact that foreign visitors, settlers or traders had on the aborigines in hindsight seems to have been too overwhelming on their way of life with the advent of white European domination and...

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... affairs have been based on the premise of a shared responsibility between Australia's various governments. The referendum initiated a national effort to raise the status of Indigenous people within Australia. Special government programs were introduced. "In 1972 a separate Commonwealth Department of Aboriginal Affairs was established. In 1987 the Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... these ideas and ideals in making and obtaining policies. After all ATSIC is a body which was implemented by a "white" government only after being afraid of wide public backlash at the bad treatment of Australia's...

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... protect the land and conduct spiritual ceremonies, which was and still 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 ... and laws. The Queensland government refuses to acknowledge this need and in the past has been found to be discriminating against the aboriginal people. The Queensland government has largely ignored the Native Title Act and has been demanding that the Federal Government legislate to ext...

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