Assess The Advantages And Disadvantages Of The Impact Of Artificial Fertilisers

The Australian Indigenous community hold extremely significant corrections to the land of Australia, of which they refer to as ‘Country.’ Indigenous people acquire deep meaning from the land, sea and the countless resources derived from them. This special relationship has formed for many centuries. To them ‘Country’ is paramount for overall wellbeing; the strong, significant, spiritual bonds embody their entire existence. Knowledge is continually passed down to create an unbroken connection of past,

“In what ways did Indigenous peoples resist the non-Indigenous settlement of Australia in the frontier period and how did non-Indigenous peoples retaliate? In your answer, discuss and analyse the initial and ongoing impact on Indigenous communities.”

The deposition of their land, involvement in violent conflict and exposure to new diseases, resulted in the death of a vast number of Indigenous people. For the small population that did survive through this period of time, their lives were irreversibly changed, forever

Aboriginal land use practices centred on the sustainable use of the land. Aboriginal Australians practiced a form of agriculture known as ‘fire stick agriculture’. This involved utilizing fire to hunt animals, by setting fire to vegetation to draw prey into the open. Doing this also increased the availability of new grass and vegetation to feed animals. Minerals from the burnt vegetation are absorbed into the soil, increasing its fertility and therefore the abundance of vegetation in the area. Ensuring that there was enough feed for animals in the wild allowed Indigenous Australians to maintain population levels of the species they hunted in a sustainable manner for thousands of years.

Aboriginal people seem to have lived a long time in the same environment as the now extinct Australian

These cultural concepts have all been threatened beyond measure in the last couple of centuries due to the invasion of Australia by European Colonists in 1788. Disposession, massacre and the forcible removal or Indigenous children from their families are just some examples of the atrocities committed against the Indigenous peoples and their culture. Following colonisation, systematic massacre of Indigenous people followed with the conscious introduction of new

Indigenous populations have been the carers and custodians of Australia and the Torres Strait for a period in excess of 60,000 years before being

They extracted only what was necessary and provided the land with enough time to regenerate. The Indigenous Australians worked to maintain the fragility of the environment, following the traditional belief that they were the guardians of the land who were to maintain and preserve it for future generations. Aboriginals also had their own system of law based on customs and beliefs, which worked like any other in resolving disputes, acknowledging family and other relationships and protecting traditions and beliefs. However, their laws were not documented in writing but rather passed down orally from elders to children, as well as communicated through art. Upon settling, the Europeans failed to recognise the Indigenous system of law, as well as the deep attachment that the Aboriginal people had to the land and the traditional methods of maintaining it which had been perfected over thousands of years – such as ‘fire stick’ farming.

The impact of British colonisation resulted in Australia being declared 'terra-nullius' 'land belonging to no-one' and Aboriginal peoples were subject to policies of dispossession and protectionism in a bid to the eventual demise of all facets of their traditional culture. (http://www.bookrags.com/essay-2005/3/2/5583/41950, 2005) The policy of 'terra

It has been suggested that food production has changed some biomes in Australia, from natural systems to systems completely dominated by humans.

In 1883, the colonial government granted Nathaniel Buchanan – Australian pioneer pastoralist, drover and explorer – 3000 square kilometres of the Gurindji tribe’s traditional land, (National Museum Australia, 2016). In 1884, cattle and bullocks were placed on the land, which disintegrated the environmental system that the Gurindji people had developed and sustained. “Basically, the land was stolen off them and if they wanted to stay on their land, and have that connection to country and that connection to spirit, they actually had to work for free for the person who stole it.” (Warwick Thornton, Aboriginal director).

One who relied on an entirely different way of life. The Australian Aborigine lived in one of the harshest environments on earth, unfarmable land, extreme heat, and the lack of any domesticable animals meant that for 40,000 years they lived in much the same way. Relying on firestick farming to cleans the largest forests, removing canopies and allowing the low brush plants to flourish. This allowed access to bush potatoes and other edible ground plants, as well as allowing the marsupials they hunted to have ample access to food. While these nomads lived differently to their northern cousins, still many similarities remained, raids, trade, and the hunter-gatherer lifestyle were all a part of the Aboriginal life. In certain parts of the country, the beginnings of agriculture could be found, with permanent settlements alongside, but these were rare. The climate of Australia combined with the limited access to new flora meant that the agrarian life could never be adopted by the masses of the continent, and so population growth was limited for the entire duration of their

The rule established in Ryland’s and fletcher is that anything likely to cause mischief, if it escapes refers to “beasts, or water, or filth, or stenches.” In the case of Cambridge Water Co and Eastern Counties Leather, the chemical perchloroethene (for tanning leather) was the culprit of contamination and it was ruled that it was included as something used to cause mischief if it escaped. We can use this ruling to decide that the hydrofluorosilicic acid was likely to cause mischief.

- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples inhabited the land of Australia for many thousands of years

Like many eager non native environmentalists, waiting to be engulfed by the green revolution, I saw the Indigenous culture as a link that could bring me closer to the earth. I believed that the generation of biodiversity could only