Australia

On this week’s issue of “Historians Weekly” we’re finally going to be starting up our new and anticipated series “Policies of Aboriginal Australia”. To start us off I will be looking at the policy of protectionism and why it was replaced by the policy of Assimilation. The policy of protectionism was introduced in 1869 and ended in 1937. The policy was established with the mindset of ‘protecting’ aboriginal people from white people due to the assumption that they were dying out. This is known

Australia is the only country in the world that covers an entire continent; It is a developed capitalist country; it is a multicultural immigrant country. According to Cambridge dictionary (n.d.), immigration means that the act of someone coming to live in a different country. Today’s modern, urbanized and affluent Australia is due to continued immigration (Jupp, 2002). However, the history of immigrants in Australia is not smooth sailing. On January 1, 1901, several British colonies on the Australian

Media sources in current culture are construed as important as they communicate the dominant ideology promoted by the bourgeois which the lower-class public should adhere to as the correct social norm (Kress, 1988). The medium which these ideologies are shown in are important, as different medium are used by different cultures. This essay will focus on comparing print with online media through analysing the Guardian and the Australian from August 31st. This will be done by looking at the types of

Australia and the World: Genocide in Tasmania? In his article Genocide in Tasmania? Henry Reynolds writes about events that happened during the British colonization of Tasmania during 1820s-1830s. The arrival of white settlers led to significant reduction of indigenous population. While colonial governments argued about the term “genocide”, Reynolds’s work suggests the term accurately describes events that happened during that period of time. The author started his arguments with references to other

Colonisation in Australia is followed by 5 steps, according to Professor Virgillio Enriquez. Step 1, includes the denial of culture within the indigenous society. This first step to this process of colonisation, also gives perspectives on the way colonisers display ignorance upon different cultures. This initial step also includes the gradual withdrawal of cultural practices, as indigenous people may develop close relationships with the colonised strangers and eventually adapt to their culture. Due

“Today Australia is one of the most ethnically diverse societies in the world. Almost one in every four Australian residents was born outside of the Australian boarders and many more are first or even second generation Australians. These children and grandchildren would have recently arrived as migrants or refugees, But in the ninetieth and twentieth century, Migration was not accepted the same way. Australia had various laws that aimed to keep people who were from non-european backgrounds out of

Australia: 1700 to Present Analyze the political, social, and economic continuities and changes in Australia from 1700 AD to the present. While Australia has politically gained independence since the 1700’s, their ethnicities have shifted to create a socially diverse country as they remain closely tied with the rest of the world in regards to global trade. Since Britain used to rule Australia in the 1700’s, Australia since has had revolutions that granted them political independence from a larger

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Australia is a diverse country with many different resources, culture, and economic advances. It’s a country that has advanced greatly in its economy despite inhibitions due to the climate being the driest in the world, which makes it vulnerable to climate change. Australia is home to 10% of the world's biodiversity, and a great number of its flora and fauna exist nowhere else in the world (“Australia-Oceania :: Australia”). Australia is located in Oceania, between the Indian Ocean and the South

The immigration policy of Australia has been in a constant state of flux ever since Federation in 1901, when the first legislative piece, the Immigration Restriction Act, was introduced. The Immigration Restriction Act has become infamous in Australian history and throughout the world, more nefariously as the ‘White Australia Policy’. The White Australia Policy was Australia’s seemingly indestructible way of ensuring a White Australia. However, the immigration of European refugees after World War