Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander People

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were treated differently before the war and during the war. They had few rights, low wages and poor living conditions before the war. They were not officially classified as Australian citizens, because of the 'Aboriginal Protectors Act' from 1869, which gave the government more control over them. This meant they couldn't go to a public bar to drink, couldn't vote, couldn't be in a relationship with a non-Aboriginal person, could not own any property and were not included in the census. When the war started and Australia was recruiting soldiers, many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders tried to sign up, as they were

Aboriginal citizens in the Great War were more than willing to enlist and volunteer however, they were not permitted to do so by the Canadian Government (Armstrong et al.1). Aboriginals hoped that one day, their voices would be heard and that they would get the rights that they deserve. Furthermore, in 1915, the Aboriginals thought the Canadian

‘We’re all Australians now’ draws the reader to see the war from a positive Australia home front perspective. Texts from

“The Federation of Australia was only seventeen years old when the war ended and a national identity began to emerge which reflected upon the sacrifice and service of Australian armed service men and women.”

During WW1’s battle of Gallipoli, the Western Front and the battle for Palestine, everyone in the ANZACs was treated equally and as mates including Aboriginal soldiers. They fought side by side with the Australians and earned the right to be called ‘mate’ but the tragic story is they were faced with hatred and discrimination once the soldiers returned home. The community, abused them, denied the Aboriginal service men from their veteran payments, children were kicked out of schools and were often stolen from parents.

Throughout history, Aboriginals have been misunderstood and mistreated, despite their contributions to the country. There were many native men who gave their lives during the first World War and numerous native communities that did anything they could to help the war effort in Canada. Aboriginals contributed in many ways to serve their country during World War I.

Indigenous Australians – Fought in ww1 and at home Lest we Forget is the most common and meaningful phrase when Australians remember soldiers who fought in the First World War. However, roughly 500 troops have been forgotten and these are the Indigenous Australians. Indigenous Australians served in the Boer War, both World War I and World War II, through to Afghanistan (Cambourne, 2013). Their willingness to fight for a country that disowned them, at the time of ww1, was unprecedented.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a long and rich history in Australia. In the community in which I live, and hopefully will be working, many programs and events have been set up to support, encourage and maintain the qualities and efforts of the original owners of this land. Browsing through the council website, I was able to find information relating to the Aboriginal people who once lived in the western parts of Melbourne, they were the ‘Yalukit Wilum, a name meaning 'river camp' or 'river dwellers'.’ The council has provided links to a book written about their lives which details their cultural practices, their religious beliefs, their customs, key events in their calendar and other important information.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have faced disadvantages in various areas, particularly housing. The disadvantages these people face now are the result of policies introduced by the European settlers, then the government. The policies introduced were protection, assimilation, integration and self-determination. It is hard to understand the housing disadvantages faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people if their history is not known.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are the Indigenous people of Australia who have lived on this land for thousands of years. They have a strong spiritual belief that closely ties them to their homeland of Australia. As Europeans settled in Australia and started to gain control over the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, they started to view the Indigenous through the lense of scientific racism and Social Darwinism, which gathered an opinion for them to either accustom in the white community or to die out. This outlook towards the Indigenous communities resulted in families being torn apart as children were taken away and put into missions that would teach them behaviours acceptable in the white society which had a great impact on

to refer to the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander An Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander is someone who identifies themselves as being Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, they can also be accepted within an Aboriginal abd/or Torres Strait Islander community.

Aboriginal peoples of Canada have suffered exponentially throughout the entirety of history and proceed to do so in modern society. Much of the continued suffrage of aboriginal peoples is as a result of the Sixties Scoop and the Residential School System, as well as the lack of resources available to them. This has wreaked extensive havoc on the mental health of Aboriginal peoples, and has left excessive amounts of stigma and racism attached to Aboriginal Peoples, explicitly seen in the cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Indigenous Australians are probably descendants of the first modern humans to migrate out of Africa to Asia, roughly 70,000 years ago, arriving in Australia around 50,000 years ago.

Australia is located south of Papua New Guinea, in the southern and eastern hemispheres and is surrounded by the Pacific and Indian oceans. The absolute location is 25.2744° S, 133.7751° E. The island is thought to have been inhibited by Aboriginal people since 70,000 B.C. The Dutch were the first Europeans to land on the west coast of Australia, and named the island “New Holland”. In 1770 British explorer James Cook discovered the east coast of Australia. He landed in Botany Bay (Sydney), and named the territory “New South Wales”.

Australian aboriginals are a group of people who are deemed to be the indigenous occupants of Australia. The Australian High Court appreciated them to share a common as well as biological ancestry as Australia's original occupants (de Plevitz, & Croft, 2003). There has however been a lot of ignorance with reference to this group of people more so from the Australians. This has mostly been due to ignorance of these people with most arguments and opinions based on myths (Morphy, & Morphy, 1984, p.459-478).