Callie Torres

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, language and culture are part of who we are as Australians. It is important for me as a pre-service teacher to be aware of how my personal background, experiences and ideas about identity will influence my teaching philosophy to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. My ability to understand the cultural identities of all students in my class is necessary for addressing their individual needs. We all bring our own perspectives and ways

How people lived in Australia around the turn of the century: * Living in 1900: * There was 3 categories in which how people lived and where they stood: * From lowest to highest it was the working class, the middle class and the upper class. * Working class: The lowest category and lived poorly and worked for long amounts for limited amounts of money and resources. * The middle class lay in the middle and was the group of people in society that had bigger better houses on their

Whether or not Aboriginal people had left the land to dry for itself is not our concern here. Nor is the aim of this paper to prove the English were right in claiming sovereignty over Australian land, since there is much proof they hadn't even been the first Europeans to meet with "terra nullius". Nevertheless, as history speaks for itself, there's clear evidence Aboriginal people endured immense changes during colonization years, on the land where they stood, cultures unshaken, for thousands of

limited. After research, I have leant about history of Australia’s First Peoples and the struggles they have faced. In February 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered an apology to the “Stolen Generations” that was addressed to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians who had been forcibly removed from their families under government policies. The National Apology to the Stolen Generations came as a suggested National inquiry into the Removal of Indigenous Children from their families

Indigenous Australians have lived in this land for approximately 60,000 years, it’s believed they migrated from Africa to Australia through southern Asia. In 1770 Capitan James Cook, arrived in Australia from England and claimed the land in the name of the United Kingdom, from that time onwards British settlers took Aboriginal’s land, resources, displace their people and pretty much destroyed their culture. City of Gosnells Western Australia original inhabitants were the Beeloo Nyungar Aboriginal

Aboriginal people have been in Australia more than 50,000 to 120,000 years. There were more than 300,000 Aboriginal people living in Australia when the British arrived in 1788 (Purdie, et al., 2010). Since European colonisation began most Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people has been on hardship. They were not granted citizenship rights until 1967 and waited until 1972 to be paid equal wages. During this colonisation period Aboriginal people has faced into many difficulties such as legal and political

a local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander agency. The information was gathered from a variety of sources. Holistic Services The proposed aim of the services should be holistic while addressing social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who facilitate services offered by the agency. Following a Western approach to social and emotional well-being will not be productive nor culturally sensitive when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

The photo ‘Wharfies Support Equal Rights for Aborigines’ was photographed by Noel Butlin Collection at the Australian National University in the late 1950’s, taken in 4-10 Goulburn Street, Sydney, hence a primary source. The photograph illustrates a non-racist community as both white Australians and coloured people marched together for the rights of Aborigines. The image portrays desegregation between the black and the white community. It also illustrates the time in the 1950s when the Aboriginals

Australian people and culture are often stereotyped in the media in different forms, one of them being film. The two films being examined, ‘Red dog’ (2011) and the ‘Sapphires’ (2012), are an example of the Australian identity but from different points of view. ‘Red dog’ shows the kind and positive side which exemplifies mateship and loyalty. The film ‘Sapphires’ ,which takes place in the 1950’s through to the 1960’s, shows a negative and racist view towards the indigenous people. Both the films show

The media message which has been chosen is Kevin Rudd’s ‘Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples’ speech. On Wednesday the 12th of February 2008, Australia’s prime minister, at the time, delivered an official apology to the Indigenous peoples who were taken from families and communities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries in Australia. In this speech, Kevin Rudd, the Australian prime minister is giving a painstaking apology to the stolen generations and the aboriginals for their sorrow, pain