Crime, criminality and colonialism are all intricately tied together in the Australian Indigenous context. To understand the nature of crime and criminality as it exists today one must understand the context of the history of colonialism and how it relates to both past and present crime. The underlying theme that inextricably bonds the three together is past and present law. It ... (Behrendt, 2009, p.31) 'separation from the primary care giver can give rise to problems of attachment and the development of psychiatric disorders'. A documented survey by the Western Australian Aboriginal L...

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On 10th of December 1992, Paul Keating delivered the Redfern address, which was an oratorical moment in Australians history as it managed to capture in explicit terms, the harsh truths about Australian history, and to use them as a basis for building trust in the government's motives among Indigenous Australians. On the 13th of Febuary 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered the national apology ... to imagine these things being done to us." With these words, the former prime minister's speech was the first time an Australian political leader had publicly acknowledged the impact of colonial...

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... Tribal languages were ultimately replaced with English. As a consequence, the core Aboriginal belief systems disintegrated. The demise of the Aboriginal people continued until 1967 when a federal referendum granted Australian citizenship to Aboriginals and the right to vote. However Aboriginals still didn't feel apart of Australia. They felt isolated and segregated. In 1972, Aboriginals established the Tent Embassy on ... dispossessed the land from these people, their culture, society, belief-system and Kinship groups vanished. Today, the Aboriginals have to cope with the repercussions....

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... gone from approximately one million before colonisation to just over 386 000 at the last census in 1996 including Torres Strait Islanders. Where they used to cover most of the Australian land they now mainly live in New South Wales and Queensland. While Aboriginals have now been given more rights such as land rights, they have lost much of their culture ... for both Maori and non-Maori students. The 1950's saw the majority of the Maori workforce unskilled making economic hardship more acute for Maoris. In the 1960's the Maori customs, history and language was promoted in all schools. Th...

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