Every country in our world today shares some sort of relationship with another country. Whether it’s peaceful, aggressive, wanted or unwanted, each place shares a link with another. Australia has countless connections across the world, but one continent we have a major connection with is Asia, more specifically South Asia. The Asia-Australia relationship can be separated into cultural and political links. These cultural links include customs and traditions, religion, literature and art and food and language. The political connections are history, politics and economy and trade.
CULTRUAL
Australia is one of the most multicultural countries on Earth, meaning people from many different countries reside there. This can also make it difficult to find what a broad term for Australian culture is, due to its many influences. But the aboriginal part to Australia’s history does have a specific culture we can identify. On the other hand South Asia’s culture can be clearly defined. South Asia has influenced Australia, and vice versa. They also share similarities and differences throughout each other’s customs, religions, art and food and language.
CUSTOMS
Within South Asia, most of them share similar social behaviours to one another. One of these customs include wearing modest clothing and covering their heads with scarves. Clothes are typically draped and colourful. Most people in the younger generation, now dress in more western clothes (such as jeans and t-shirts), but for special
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,
Australia boasts one of the world's most multicultural societies. Therefore, it can be difficult to pinpoint what being "Australian" really is, or to define Australian culture. The best way to approach an analysis of Australian culture may be to compare it with another culture. Chinese culture is equally as complex and diverse as Australian culture, as both countries have a large variety of ethnic groups within their borders. However, in terms of the many aspects of culture such as meaning, language, human activity, lifestyle, works of art, and leisure activities, Australian and Chinese cultures differ from one another. Some of the aspects of culture that differ the most between Australian and Chinese societies include gender, lifestyle, and language.
Australia is a Nation with an enormously diversified ethic nature to the country. This report will help us experience and enhance our knowledge about the cultural aspects the country holds with it and also will give us an understanding of what it means to be an Australian. The report focuses on 3 major states of Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia. This report will be focused on understanding the various family cultures of the country, the festivals and celebrations that happen in Australia. This report will also give a brief about how and if the diversified cultural essence of the country impacts the patriotic essence of the nation. Finally, this report will help us understand what builds the nucleus that binds the various cultures of Australia. The work done on this report is major a research from the perspective of the common people and locals of Australia from various backgrounds who were either
Our task for this term is to compare and contrast Australia and an Asian country. This report will highlight the similarities and differences between my chosen country India and Australia.
The bilateral relationship between Australia and Indonesia has a long but fluctuating history as ‘strange neighbours’, based on a traditional stance from Australian parties of Indonesia as the weaker state (Robert and Hadir 2015: 195). The discourse on Australia’s role in East Timor, particularly the intervention as the head of the UN sanctioned INTERFET team, has been praised or criticized depending on the narrative constructed of the events (Maley 2000: 151). Australia’s role in the East Timor crisis began through complicity in its causes, followed by a change in foreign policy which caused a deterioration of the Indonesia-Australia relationship at a time when Indonesia’s new democratic governance should have deepened relations (Sulistiyanto 2010: 125). While Australia and Indonesia have been steadily rebuilding their relationship, especially in regard to security, the
Although Australia remains geographically isolated from the world, international trade still remains a main factor that allows Australia’s economy to prosper. Australia’s long history of trade has created tight links and connections with other nations. Being a member of many worldwide organisations, Australia has produced many free trade agreements with countries around the world. However, recently Australia has seen a change in the composition and direction of its trade and has developed a strong trade link with the Asia-Pacific Region.
Over the past 230 years, Aboriginals have protested in many different ways to gain rights, which they believe they are deserving of. Through aims of what they wanted to achieve, the processes they went through brought them disappointment over the poor results of some actions and pleasure over the success of others. Over those years, very few periods of protest have been as revelational or effective as the protests occurring between 1938 and 1972. During this period many different groups of Aboriginals have fought for the common cause of being recognised as people rather than interferences caught in the midst of Australians expansion as a nation.
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 Aborigines have a complex belief in creation, spirits and culture that gives a definite distinctiveness from any other religion in the world. Thousands of years ago, Australian Aboriginal people were living in accordance with their dreamtime beliefs- today, a majority of the Aboriginal community profess allegiance to Christianity,
This essay analyses the Australian-China bilateral relationship since 1945 and in particular its political significance to Australia. Many global factors have influenced this relationship, including the advent of the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the collapse of the Soviet bloc European nations. In addition, internal political changes in Australia and China have both affected and been affected by the global changes. It will be analysed that Australia’s bilateral relationship with China has always had a sharp political edge but that approaching the new millenium economics and trade considerations are shaping Australias and for that matter Chinese politics.
Australia responded to the threat of communism in Asia through the Korean War in particular the agreements between Australia and the other countries trying to fight against communism. The Australia, New Zealand and United States Treaty also known as the ANZUS treaty and the South East Asia treaty Organisation Alliance (SEATO Alliance) were the two main alliance agreements establishing Australia’s defence. Through joining these alliances, Australia was able to fight off communism brought upon by China, Cuba, Laos and North Korea, now in Australia we can speak freely and have equal rights and opportunities. Australia now also has a bond with New Zealand, United States and South East Asia has a better defence line with each
There is this sense of a shared history in Australia and Australia has a shared history. Firstly, the often silent history of the first peoples, a proud, diverse culture of peoples. The first peoples of Australia, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, existing on these lands thousands of years. A nation of nomadic peoples living together in harmony with respect to the land through the ancestral guidance of their traditional laws of culture. A culturally rich indigenous community who had their country invaded, their peoples massacred and denied of human and civil rights. Secondly, the documented Australian history. The Europeans, non-indigenous people, who discovered a vast new land with no civilized owners. A diplomatic
Australian-Indonesian relations are the foreign relations between the two countries, whether economically, politically, legally or socially. Australian-Indonesian relations involve an interaction in foreign policies between the two nations (Wolfsohn, 1951, p. 68). As long as Indonesia is Australia 's closest and largest neighbor, they are bound to have great international relations. These relations began as early as the 17th century and had only become enhanced with time (Daly, 2003, p. 397). The relationship has been defined by a conjoint growth trade of up to $14 between the years 2011-2012 which reports an increase from the previous economic year (Mark, 2012, p.402). These countries are members of various trade deals such as the ASEAN Regional Forum in addition to having close ties with education, defense, and leadership. Australia 's relationship with Indonesia is crucial, and lack of such could severely bruise the economy, and hence they need to keep united by ensuring the use of widespread media with beneficial input. Australia interacts with Indonesia in a way such as sporting activity, tourism, education, economic policies, youth exchange programs, cultures and above all their diplomacy (Okamoto, 2010, p.241).
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Oceania was founded in the Pacific Ocean, it is a region that is generated of divergent islands that are found along the central and southern Pacific Ocean. Oceania is divided into three groups of islands which are the continental islands, the high, and low islands. Australia has fertile land that is suitable for agricultures to make use of land. The region of southeast Australia, compared to the rest of the regions, has an economic advantage being that it is the most secure. The government system is composed of the prime minister and queen Elizabeth, creating stability in the region.