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illustrate the struggle faced by the indigenous Australians to maintain culture to a greater extent than Jane Harrison has done”. I agree with the definition given by the affirmative team. However, I, the negative team believe that this statement is false. Today as first speaker I will be talking to you about how Grenville’s characterisation of both Smasher and Saggity are both exemplary portrayals of the loss of culture for Indigenous Australians, as they both provide the narrative basis of the

In recent years, there has been an apparent growth of the Indigenous population of Australia driven, in part, by an increasing willingness on the part of many Australians to acknowledge/assert their Aboriginality (ABS, 2003). As at 30 June 2001, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (ATSI) population of Australia was estimated to be 458,520, or 2.4 per cent of the total population. Persons

The curriculum in Australian schools is a highly contentious and political issue. For remote indigenous communities this is even more so. School curriculums in Australia are western culturally based and thus this effects the learning capabilities of indigenous students in remote communities. “Most indigenous Australians living in the Northern Territory want their children to go to school and get an education. They also want their children to learn the ways of their ancestors, to be strong in the

English Year 11 Indigenous Perspective Australia day is for Australians to celebrate the arrival of the first fleet of British ships at Sydney cove in 1788. But when everyone is celebrating we tend to forget about the aborigines to them Australia day is invasion day where strange people with strange clothing start to take over there land. This is why the ‘The First Australians’ is such a good movie showing true stories of the aboriginals and there transformation period of history. Where ‘My Place’

On the 9th of February 1942, three divisions of Japanese soldiers landed in Singapore, which was at the time a major British military base and presence in the Pacific. Six days later, over 90 000 British, Australian and Indian troops were forced to surrender. It had been believed that Singapore guaranteed the security of Australia during the war, consequently, the fall of Singapore opened Australia to invasion. The fall of Singapore was significant in causing relations between Australia and the

different names may be used to refer to the deceased person. Q3) 3.1) The objects of this Act are, in recognition of the past dispossession and dispersal of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their present disadvantaged position in Australian society: ensure maximum participation of Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islanders in the formulation and implementation of government policies that affect

loss which affected families in the play. Gow uses three main families to convey the message of the play. The use of language and stylistic devices influence the way Gow has been able to speak to the modern Australian audience. In the play “Away” Gow is able to speak to the modern Australian audience with the use of allusion. Gow alludes to two of Shakespeare’s plays; Midsummer Night’s Dream and King Lear, two well-known actors in the 1960’s; Chips Rafferty and Laurance Olivier and the Vietnam War

An Australian Icon An Australian Icon is defined as “an image or symbolic representation, which often holds great significance and importance to the Australian culture.” Every country has icons that represent their culture and values; Nelson Mandela is an example of a South African icon but also an icon of the world, who represented statesmanship, courage, freedom and equality against apartheid. Australia also has many significant icons such as the Sydney Opera House, Uluru, vegemite, Ned Kelly

Aboriginal life. In a publication titled, Is it in the Blood? Australian Aboriginal Identity, author Myrna Ewart Tonkinson discusses Western imperialism and its implications on Aboriginal identity. According to Tonkinson, what mattered most to the Europeans in their classification of Indigenous Australians was how they differed from Europeans rather than the differences between one another. Since the earliest days of colonization, “white Australians assumed the prerogative of defining and classifying Aborigines”

that there are many inequalities that exist in the country between indigenous Australians and non-indigenous Australians (Ramsden, 2002). As an international student I found this subject to be extremely interesting and challenging. Learning the significance of cultural differences is an important aspect of nursing practice everywhere. On the other hand, I found unexpected negative issues related to indigenous Australians who suffer major difficulties in all aspects of their