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    According to Ricco Villanueva Siasoco, “Aborigines are Australia's indigenous people. Recent government statistics counted approximately 400,000 aboriginal people, or about 2% of Australia's total population.” Indigenous people are the first people/persons that occupy a region, where they in contact with outsiders, usually colonial powers. It is believed that Australian Aborigines migrated somewhere in Asia roughly over 30,000 years ago, Siasoco writes, “Though

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    for and against the Freedom Rides in 1965. In spite of the fact that it profited and indefinitely supported and raised awareness to the aboriginal races inequality, it was still a questionable act that produced both approval and criticism from the Australian Public. I used a newspaper article, a photograph and a legal document to argue the significant contribution of the freedom rides to the equality of the indigenous population. My first source is an example of forced segregation and a major motivation

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    largest impact on Indigenous Australians? Through research the Assimilation Policy had the largest impact upon Indigenous Australians and the three supporting arguments to prove this are the Aborigines losing their rights to freedom, Aboriginal children being removed from their families, and finally the loss of aboriginality. The Assimilation was a policy set by the government in 1937 and went to till 1964. This policy of Assimilation was set not just for Aborigines in Australia but for all foreign

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    depressing day of the Bicentenary of European Settlement. As the "righteous" day is reflected by the persona, this contrasts with the 'White' Australians celebrating a "successful" colonisation in high-spirited ways, because to the Aborigines it is a day of mourning as they view it as Invasion day. The poem underlines the fact that despite the hardships Aborigines have experienced as a result of White Colonisation, it would be ideal if they shifted from prisoners of society to proactive citizens of Australia

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    Racism In Australia Essay

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    the deliberate extermination of a race, religion, or ethnic group. Looking at Australia and its history, racism had a tremendous impact on its Aborigines that not only is unfathomable yet, dehumanizing. Racism incorporated control of native land under the ‘Terra Nullius’ attitude, white paranoia, assimilation, sugar cane plantations and native Australian well-being. Multiculturalism has caused chronological development and advancement that Australia has experienced in which stresses the pivotal

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    still going on. The protection is an Act to provide for the protection and care of aborigines [20th December, 1909.] This was made for all aboriginals but mainly the children as it includes the right of the Protection Board to remove youth from Aboriginal Reserves and had placed them into service like the image above which was taken in a camp. Primary Source that was taken in 1928, Children are removed by the Aborigines Protection Board from the Gully at Katoomba. They’re either transferred to Bakersville

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    Aboriginal History and Culture Aborigines are believed to have lived in Australia for between 60,000 and 40,000 years, their early ancestors coming from South-East Asia. Precise population details for the period before European colonisation are unavailable, but it is estimated that there were between 300,000 and 1,000,000 Aborigines in Australia when European settlers first arrived in 1788. These natives formed approximately 500 tribes, each associated with its own language and stretch of

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    ended, we live in our country named Australia and we are Australians, Australia Day is one of our tradition, Aboriginal’s failure won’t change despite we change the day. I am Lake, a Aborigine living and contributing for Australia and I will sorry to Melbourne citizens, especially who want to change the day that i honestly disagree. Australians of all backgrounds have been living alongside their indigenous Australian neighbors for decades in relative peace and goodwill. The

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    case as it was an excuse to wipe out the Aboriginal race and culture, which was ordered by the Australian Government at the time. The Government’s policies and practices regarding the removal of children, the ill treatment and the continuing effects eradicated many aboriginal generations. Government authorities claimed legal guardianship of all Indigenous children and

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    The Stolen Generation has left devastating impacts upon the Aboriginal culture and heritage, Australian history and the presence of equality experienced today. The ‘Stolen Generation’ refers to the children of Aboriginal descent being forcefully abducted by government officials of Australia and placed within institutions and catholic orphanages, being forced to assimilate into ‘white society’. These dehumanising acts placed these stolen children to experience desecration of culture, loss of identity

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