Australian aborigines

someone’s wife (Finnane, 2001, p. 295-296). ‘Payback’ was noted in some Aborigine groups from the late 18th century but cannot be given a place today in its violation of several laws including human rights standards. The court and its assignees are to punish an offender, not angry Aborigines. Customary law among various Aborigine groups does involve corporal punishment that is indeed criminal in the thinking of Australian law in what can be severe physical abuse that can deter future offences.

recognised in the Australian Constitution. As the first people in our nation, they should be recognised and treated as equals. The Constitution is the founding legal document of our nation. It sets out the rules of Parliament and how lawmakers, government and courts operate. The Constitution was approved at Referendum by the people in the Australian Colonies between 1898 and 1900 and came into effect on the 1st of January 1901. In the late 1890s, all capital cities/Australian colonies had been established

Indigenous Australians developed trust issues during colonisation. When the settlers invaded, life would never be the same for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people. Land that had been theirs for roughly 40,000 years was stripped from the Indigenous Australians and all rights were taken away. Most settlers were extremely racist and wanted the Indigenous Australians gone. One settler from Hunter Valley went as far as comparing the Aborigines to apes (Wilson-Miller, 2011). The 1905 Act in Western

in a poor state. There goal was to hopefully point out and to help lessen the social discrimination against aboriginals that had existed between them and white residents. The group of students formed this group and called it “Student Action for Aborigines” (SAFA) IN 1964 to plan out how the trip would go and try and get media coverage. Advantages The advantages of the 1965 freedom ride were that they did generate a lot of attention and publicity to the Aboriginal Equality Movement, which had led

Aborigines in Australia Foreword: The aborigines in Australia have been the subject of controversy and attention towards the end of the 20th century because of their maltreatment in the hands of their British colonizers and continued persecution in a land they rightfully own. Their rich culture, which dates back to the Ice and Stone Age, is near extinction because of the oppression they suffered through time. In spite of the odds, however, the remaining children

Has Australian law adequately protect the health of indigenous people? Contemporary issue The issue appeared in The Australian newspaper in January 2007 which discussed about the indigenous health. There is no exact statistics that really measure aborigines’ health as only about 72% of them were included in the surveys. The issue is able to make us think on actions that could be made in order to protect the health rights of the indigenous Australian. It seems to be impossible for the responsible

Introduction Indigenous Australians are the native inhabitants of Australia. • Before 1788, Australia was populated only by the Indigenous people which included Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Aboriginal people inhabited the whole of Australia and Torres Strait Islanders lived on the islands between Australia and Papa New Guinea, in which is now called the Torres Strait (1) • There were many different Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities made up of people who spoke different

disputes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. While some historians claim that the Stolen Generation was attempted genocide and others contradict it by arguing that it was about protectionism, one cannot refute that the Stolen Generation has ultimately hindered reconciliation and will continue due to the basic ideas that it was built on still exist in modern Australia. It has developed an obvious gap between non-Aborigines and Aborigines that

Australian Aborigines are native to Australia and have lived in a territory called the Arnhem Land or northern Australia for almost forty thousand years. Some of the Aborigines live in government housing today, while others still live among the land as their ancestors did. Aborigines are an ethnic group that also has many religious beliefs. They believe in Animism which is the belief that living creatures and the outside environment contain supernatural powers. Their culture and beliefs resonate

Land Rights for the First Australians Australian Aborigines have had a traditional relationship with their land since they first came to the Australian continent somewhere from 40,000 to 60,000 years ago to 120,000 years ago (9:9). Before Europeans came and settled the same land, the Aborigines had their own law system, trading systems, and way of caring for their land (12:1-2). Then the First Fleet of Europeans landed at Botany Bay in New South Wales in 1788. The expedition lead by the new Governor