Gough Whitlam

The 1967 Referendum The 1967 referendum concerned the amendment of the discriminatory clauses regarding the Indigenous race within the Australian constitution. Although the 1967 referendum led to the increased awareness of the Indigenous disadvantage, the referendum only had a moderate impact on the advancement of Indigenous rights, due to the slow progression of legislation and implementation of changes that addressed Indigenous disadvantage. Leading up to the 1967 referendum, Indigenous Australians

Immigration – Arthur Calwell (Interviewee) – Martin Nguyen 10H2 Interviewer: Good afternoon Arthur Calwell, it is an honor to have you here and allow us to question your immigration aspects. Firstly, I would love to know more about your family and how they came to Australia. Interviewee: Good afternoon to you too, it initially started with my grandpa from America who came to Victoria in 1853 and wedded my Welsh grandma, and my mom is the little girl of an Irishman who had come to Melbourne by a boat

Populate or Perish Introduction: Australia was in a time of crisis during World War 2 (1945) when they were threatened by the Japanese invasions. Australia did not have a big population at that time resulting in not have a strong defence to protect Australia. The Department of Immigration that was created then strongly urged that Australia needed an increase in its population by at least 1% each year. They needed a plan to gain a huge population; they needed to populate or perish! Table of Contents:

Disher demonstrates isolation of the ethnic groups and the regional and urban divide present in The Divine Wind through the beliefs, experiences, and values of the Killian family and Hartley Penrose. Both culturally and geographically isolated from the rest of Australia, the people of Northern and Central Australia, specifically Broome felt ignored, misunderstood, and misconstrued by the urban South. This is an ongoing theme in Australia. They resented interference from the federal government. The

This essay analyses the Australian-China bilateral relationship since 1945 and in particular its political significance to Australia. Many global factors have influenced this relationship, including the advent of the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the collapse of the Soviet bloc European nations. In addition, internal political changes in Australia and China have both affected and been affected by the global changes. It will be analysed that Australia’s bilateral relationship with

Neville Meaney’s 1995 article ‘The End of ‘White Australia’ and Australia’s Changing Perceptions of Asia 1945-1990’ seeks to contextualise the complexity of Australian national identity within the historical framework of the White Australia Policy. Meaney argues that although Australia has vocalized an identity based on commitment to multiculturalism and its place within Asia, it is difficult to reconcile these new self-conceptions with the genesis of the Australian identity based on racially exclusive

During the Vietnamese war, conscription sparked a fierce debate that lasted for years, and split the Australian public into two. When Australia agreed to help the South Vietnamese, at the hands of the communist Vietcong, very few Australians questioned the judgement of the Australian leaders. However, in November, 1964 - when the Australian Government brought conscription into the Vietnamese war, with plans to increase the Australian army to 37,500 within the next three years, in the form of ‘National

THE WHITLAM DISMISSAL The Constitutional dilemma of 1975, also referred to as ‘The Dismissal’, was one of the most chaotic eras in Australia’s political history. The Australian Labor Party sailed to victory in the 1972 federal election and Gough Whitlam’s government was ready to propose and implement large numbers of bills and reform policies. After many successes in areas including law reform, the relatively new Whitlam government constantly made mistakes and was getting caught by the public and

The Stolen Generation has had a great effect on Aboriginal rights and freedoms as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders didn’t even have the rights to raise and look after their children and as a result 100,000 Aboriginal Australian’s were displaced and placed into white families. The lack of understanding and respect for Aboriginal culture also meant that many people who supported the removal of these children really thought they were doing “the right thing”. The impact on Australian life today

General excercised the reserve powers of the office, was the 1975 constitutional crisis, in which Sir John Kerr sacked Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. The Whitlam Labor government had received small majority in the house of represenattives, however the opposition had control of the senate, and blocked the passage ofappropraiaction bill. On the 11th of November 1975, Whitlam wanted to call a half-senate election attempting to break the deadlock, but when he went to seek Kerr for approval Kerr instead dismissed