Geography Assignment on Places in Australia

identify and discuss the local Indigenous Australian people of the land on which the student lives/works/or studies. (live)

Describe and explain Australian Indigenous people’s historical and contemporary connections to land and sea and the resources derived from them. How have settler discourses associated with colonization affected these connections to country?

The first page depicts a pristine Australia with vivid blue sky and red earth but as the British begin their colonisation, introducing vehicles and technology into the country, the blue of the sky slowly fades as the dirty pollution takes over sucking up the colour of the land as well. The symbolism of the scientific and mathematical formulae, test tubes and plans positions the viewer to recognise that white man, in his efforts to learn about the land through experiments, is in fact destroying a land with which the natives had lived in harmony for many years. The irony of this is particularly obvious when the illustrator juxtaposes a picture of cows attached to milking machines and marked as to what cuts of meat they will become, together with branded and tagged sheep, with a picture of a barren piece of land and empty waterhole full of dead fish. Tan reinforces this irony through the use of unnatural colour on the page with the sheep and cows suggesting to us that the mass production of non-native animals for food is unnatural and is destroying the natural food sources of the land through pollution and

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

Outline the geographical processes relevant to the management of the Cronulla, Wanda and Kurnell area.

Culture is always changing. Beliefs, behaviours and presentation, religion and language all form part of what is an individual’s or community’s culture. (Bowes, Grace, & Hodge, 2012, p.75 & 77). Due to its intrinsic nature, when people migrate to Australia, they bring their culture with them. As migrants come from all over the world, and not the one place, their

The term community is often utilised within Aboriginal contexts. When engaging with Aboriginal communities however, it is important to understand the complexities of such structures to ensure clarity regarding who is engaging with who and for what purpose. There are many different types of Aboriginal communities. Some consist of geographic settlements located in regional, rural, remote or urban areas. Other communities are those of ‘identity or interest’ which often transcend physical boundaries yet nevertheless unite people (Hunt: 2013). Further communities, are those of nation, language and kinship groups united through cultural identity (Hunt & Smith 2006). Many Aboriginal communities today, are complex mixes of people with varied cultural

The Mallee region of Victoria is situated in North-West Victoria and covers an area of around 44,000 square kilometres. The region is known to be associated with the adjacent land of South Australia and New South Wales and is also recognised to join with the Wimmera and Loddon regions of Victoria. Also, because of the large area which the region covers and the diversity it beholds, it is sometimes distinguished into two sub-regions, the north and the south. Whilst 38% of the land is occupied by the public, only 1% of the remaining 62% is protected from grazing animals and only 3.04% retains native vegetation. ????????

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

The purpose of the course is to gain some understanding of Indigenous Australia by being exposed to Indigenous ways of understanding the world. Therefore, our goal was to deliver the information to our peers as simple and as clear as possible to help meet this purpose. My tutorial group discussed the week 5 reading on Australian Aboriginal peoples’ seasonal knowledge and its merging with Western science. This article illustrates the findings on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and talks about its contribution to natural resource management (NRM) (Prober, S. M., M. H. O'Connor, and F. J. Walsh, 2011, pg 1).

Rural Australia comprises over 95 percent of the Australian continent, however, the Australian institute of family studies states that only 1.5% of Australia’s population live in remote areas and 0.8% lives in very remote areas (Baxter, Gray & Hayes, 2011). The Commonwealth Schools Commission (1988) describes rural communities in Australia as being distinguished by variations in climate, topography, industry and population. They also distinguish rural Australia as all of the nation’s area, excluding the greater metropolitan regions and generally areas within 50 kilometres of those regions.

The Yarra catchment is north and east of Melbourne and covers approximately 4,046 square kilometers. It is split into three regions Upper, Middle, Lower. It is home to more than one-third of Victoria’s population and native plant and animal species, (Melbourne Water 2014) there is a large variety of land use

Topography is occasionally an arresting subject of any issue or territory examined in the World Savvy Monitor, and there is some truth to the adage that geography is decision ahead of time. Ldcs are often genuinely haggled by their territory in an expansive number of ways. Many are seen in brutal environments portrayed by low quality soil and clashing precipitation (which causes dry seasons and surges), and defenselessness to tropical diseases and bugs. This routines green potential is obliged. Without clearing watering framework, sustenance era is needing and people and creatures encounter the sick impacts of awfulness and starvation. Lack of clean water sickens and homicides; gatherings are crushed by trademark disasters; young and old fall prey to diseases, for instance, wilderness fever; continuing segregating budgetary belonging, for instance, goats and bovines alive is a test. Subsistence living is wonderfully troublesome, and store stores and hypothesis are

In the centre of the North Island of New Zealand (page 5, Natural Landscapes, Year 12 notes)

The study area is a 30km2 section of the Canterbury Plains, situated between the Waimakariri and Rakaia Rivers (Figure 2), to the west of Christchurch City. It falls within Path 74, Row 90 of Landsat’s reference system. The area encompasses a variety of land use