... 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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... the need to become westernised in order to achieve respect? No, for it specifically mentions that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can "freely- pursue - not necessarily within the bounds of another's culture. However I think it's been black and white for too long now, and it's time to integrate a little grey. Both cultures, native to the country or not, are determined ... a modern society? Wear all the clothes, listen to the music and become as selfish and self-absorbed as the next "middle class white Australian?- Both Ernie Dingo and Deborah Mailman live in -nice houses...

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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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... 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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... have to live the same way. This is when the first signs of genocide appeared. The British told the indigenous people to live like the white man did and to act and speak like him because that is the way God intended people to live. This is exactly the same way the English and colonists tried to get the native Americans to act ... . 19). Just like in the Americas, assimilation was a huge factor. That is, the government wanted the continent of Australia to be all together one people. This basically meant that the aborigines were to become just like the white people, forgetting all their bel...

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... values and beliefs. The Missionaries were the first to attempt to change Aboriginal population with an emphasis on Christianity. Christianity was the first wave of abuse in store for Aboriginal people. Aboriginal freedom was not to last as the pre-confederation government, the government of the now established Canada and religious advocators of Christianity, and other religions, were about to ... make Aboriginal people their problem. "In the first few decades of the new Canadian Nation, when the government turned to address the constitutional responsibility for Indians and lands assigne...

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... victim to alcoholism, and consequently made many unfair trades of land and resources while intoxicated. Alcoholism spread throughout the Native American population, and land continued to go to the white settlers, until the natives destitute and at the mercy of the colonies. The Spanish also brought alcohol to central and South America, as well as simply wiping out entire ... land to the black majority. The native Blacks of the region, a hunter-gatherer society of nomads who cannot live their traditional lives on barren, isolated land, sought cheap labour in white-owned factories, farms,...

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... sudden death of the owner, the house was boarded up and held its breath. This diminutive section of the characterisation of Cloudstreet highlights the marginalisation of Aboriginal people in this particular context whereby, White Anglo Saxon was the dominant race. The house is reflective of the identity of Australia in this timeframe, where western ideology is dominant. By persistently highlighting ... the negative aspects of this mono-cultural society, like the unhappiness of the Aboriginal girls and the inability of Aboriginal people to vote. Ultimately, the characterisation of the act...

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