British Influence On Australian Society

The social views towards Aboriginal people portrayed in the film are far more destructive than those in the novel. In the time period of the film, 1931, the Chief Protector of Aboriginals in Western Australia, A.O. Neville, strongly believes in trying to ‘breed out’ the Aboriginal blood by forcibly removing half-caste children, who are half Aboriginal and half European from their homes and putting them in institutions such as Moore River Settlement in order to stop them from marrying members of their own race. The underlying purpose of ‘Moore River Settlement’ becomes especially clear when Neville explains to potential sponsors of the facility “the continual infiltration of blood will be bred out….in spite of himself, the native must be helped”. This mindset about Native Australians and the idea of trying to eliminate them for their own benefit is of great contrast to the one presented in the novel.

Captain James Cook first discovered Australia in 1770, but Australia was founded by Captain Arthur Phillip on January 26, 1788. Captain Phillip brought in convicts to the colony of the New South Wales, establishing Australia. An agricultural work farm was established by Captain Phillip for the British convicts. Later on, January 26 1818 became the official anniversary of British settlement in Australia. And the year 1986 was when Australia became Independent from Great Britain.

Relations between the explorers and the Aboriginal people were based on understanding the terms of trading for food, water, axes, and almost anything. A relationship encouraged by Governor Phillip, These relations became depended on the order of their life by the presence of the colonisers. Between 1790 and 1810, people of the Eora group in the Sydney area, created a resistance against the English colonists in a series of attacks. In 1821 a ship sailed on board under the command of Phillip Parker King, on a surveying voyage to the northern coast of Australia. After surveying the northern and north-western coastline of Australia, the ship accompanied King on his survey work of the western coast of Australia between 1821-1822, travelling to Mauritius for repairs. The continuing impact of settlement. Changes in policy, even when addressed to problems created by the past, do not erase the past. The history of forced resettlement on reserves, the placing of many thousands of children in institutions, and the loss of land and culture are evident in the disadvantages still experienced by many Aboriginal people

The patterns of change and continuity in Australia at the time of federation influenced Australia to become its own nation through the creation of the Australian identity. At time of Federation, the majority of people living in the Australian colonies were Australian-born. Colonists were also starting to see themselves as Australian, not as British. This meant people wanted their own identity that didn’t link back to Britain. The way of life in Australia helped build the identity, which was shaped by its differences to the typical Britain life. This was affected by the native flora and fauna, the weather and activities, sports and hobbies. There was also a change in the styles of literature and art, becoming more specifically Australian. This contributed to the growing national identity. For example, the popular oil canvas painting named Near Heidelburg by Arthur Streeton (Source 4.41, page 196, Oxford Big Ideas Australian Curriculum History 9) depicts the grasslands of Australia, and shows how people dressed accordingly to the weather. The change of the crops grown in Australia due to the climate, impacted the lifestyle of the people living in the colonies. This is a different landscape to Britain’s, where most of the population had

The article from Koori Mail refers to the British coming to “control and govern the Australian Continent”. Whilst Yahoo news describes the change of language as “rewriting history”. These statements covertly suggest that British had and continue to have superior rights to the land due to their ‘whiteness’. Terminology used in teaching Australian history such as settled, supports that the Europeans were peacefully welcomed onto the land. An assumption many Australians may believe is that Captain James Cook was the first to discover terra nullius due to the facts taught at school. While Australia had been habituated long before his arrival, the Aboriginals were still seen as nomadic and seemed to move randomly without claiming any particular territory. Cultural inaccuracies still occur surrounding the Indigenous Culture such as the terms tribe, chief and primitive to describe Indigenous. As seen by the statements made by the ‘Shock Jocks”, the journalists are not always a scholarly source therefore may not have accurate information and strive to create conflict in relation to sensitive

In 1836 between July and December eight ships came across to Kangaroo Island and aboard two of those boats were Col William Light aboard the HMS Rapid and George Strickland Kingston aboard the HMS Cygnet. They both set off to survey the coastline and found a bigger land mass for the colonists to settle on and this is when they came across

After the bombing of Darwin during World War 2 that was caused by the Japanese and the constant fear of the Japanese invading again, the federal government gave out a report that Australia needed a larger population by about 1% each year to increase the defence of Australia as by having more people, there would be more people to fight and leave less empty spots in Australia. The federal Department of Immigration was created in 1945 to find ways of getting more people to Australia from different countries. The Assisted Passage Migration Scheme or otherwise known as the Ten Pound Poms was created in 1945 to promote and encourage British people to migrate to Australia. The government 's need to get Australia a higher population was known as 'populate or perish ' which meant that either Australia populates to improve defence or gets invaded (perished).

There were many different ways in which Aboriginal people resisted the non-indigenous settlement of Australia. In 1770, James Cook first landed in Botany Bay, which was the home of the Eora People, and claimed the East Coast for Britain.

The Aborigines Protection Act 1909 (NSW) was a law that changed Indigenous Australian lives forever. The act enabled the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines to essentially control the lives of Aboriginal people. It was the Aborigines Protection Act 1909 (NSW) that had major provisions that resulted in the containment and suffering that Aboriginal people endured. This suffering included the practice of forcible removing Indigenous children from their families. These major provisions help us understand what the Aborigines Protection Act 1909 (NSW) involved and the impact it has had on the daily lives and cultures of Indigenous Australian peoples today.

The battle between the settlers and Aborigines increased when Macquarie became Governor and believed that the Aborigines should be civilised. This is another way of saying to convert Aboriginal ways into European ways. Macquarie tried very hard to teach new techniques or educating them however these failures made him very mad and desperate. In his perspective the rightful last resort was to put the Aboriginal land and people under his control by saying anyone is permitted to shoot Aborigines if they retaliated or resisted.

-White settlement affected the Indigenous people in a number of ways”{They} made them (the Aboriginals) outcasts on their own land*” by calling it terra nullius under the English Law, despite knowing the existence of the Aboriginals. Terra nullius is a latin term that means “land that belongs to no one.”They believed it belonged to no one because the Aboriginals didn’t use the land in the same way as the British. The Aboriginals believed that Mother Nature would provide them with what they needed, so they didn’t need to hunt and mark the land. The British completely ignored the deep spiritual connections the Aboriginals had with the land. They cut down trees, put up fences and built towns. They believed they had to own the land. But the Aboriginals were outraged when saw the settlers building farms where they had originally been hunting and gathering at, this was because there wasn’t enough food for them. They killed many white settlers in revenge and a clash of cultures began. Pemulwuy was an Aboriginal warrior that lead raids against the British. He also speared John McIntyre, Governor Phillip's gamekeeper, in December 1790. When the Indigenous people resisted the British, it lead to many conflicts which eventually left a irreversible damage to the lives of Indigenous people.

Noel Pearson’s speech ‘an Australian history for us all’ discusses his approach to trying to solve some of the most systemic problems facing Australian Aboriginals today. The speakers are successful in understanding the ideas and values of the speech. Through the uses of various language techniques and context, Pearson’s speech details the struggles of the relationship between the first European settlers and Aboriginal Australians.

The construction of Aboriginality in Australia has been achieved through a variety of processes, in various places and at various levels of society, giving rise to a complex interaction between the constructions. At the local level, the most striking line of tension may seem to lie between what Aboriginal people say about themselves and what others say about them. But crosscutting this is another field of tension between the ideas of Aboriginality (and non-Aboriginality) that people of all kinds construct and reproduce for themselves, and the constructions produced at the national level by the state in its various manifestations, the mass media, science, the arts and so on (Beckett, 1988).

Ironically, the civilised people who brought the ‘improvements’ could not cope to live in peace with the natives, where countless Aboriginal lives vanished under the ‘superior’ governance of the new settlers. Regardless which part of the continent including Tasmania, the history has shown many unfair

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,