Gough Whitlam

fist time in 23 years. Labor’s win came at a time of growing disillusionment from the Vietnam War, concern over "quality of life” issues such as healthcare, and uncertainty on Australia’s place in the changing world. The Labor government, led by Gough Whitlam held a small majority in the House of Representatives, while the opposition led by Malcolm Fraser controlled the senate. The ALP and The Liberal-Country both held 26 out of 60

government by this referendum enabled Gough Whitlam to introduce reforms such as indigenous land rights and equality of women. The change in legal affairs for the indigenous was a result of the change in rights and freedoms. Throughout the 19th century white settlers moved the Aboriginal people off their land and into reserves. This resulted in Aboriginal people experiencing dispossession, which meant that they didn’t exist. In the early 1970s the Whitlam government began to work on

Martin Luther King wrote the following in a campus newspaper, the Maroon Tiger 1947, “It seems to me that education has a two-fold function in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture” (King, 1947). This essay will analyse via the sociological imagination, ‘whose interests does schooling serve and why?’ In addressing this question, one needs to discuss why is an education so valued in Australia today. Education has had three phases of development according, to

Before Whitlam came into power Indigenous Australians had tough lifestyle. In 1966, 200 Gurindji stockmen and their families walked off Wave Hill for a strike against Vestey’s, which was a British pastoral company that ran the cattle station, they employed the local Aboriginal people. It was to protest against their poor working and living conditions they suffered from. Aboriginal workers would be paid less to non-Aboriginal employees (Naagovau, 2015). This then lead to an attempt to introduce equal

was an officer at Wattie Creek and would help the policemen track down cattle that was stolen and the people missing using his tracking abilities. On August the 16th, 1975, Gough Whitlam, the Prime Minister at the time, organised a ceremony so that he could give the land back to the Gurindji people. At the ceremony, Whitlam grabbed some soil from the ground and said “Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and

Introduction: - Brief summary of Australian policing and colonial policing history • Australian policing has been around for decades in maintaining a safe, fair and justice Australia for the Australian society. These policing are subjected to the prevention of crime. • In addition, it was said that under the model, the police were the public and the public were the police - State that Australian policing is no longer influenced by their colonial history: • Policing History- Civil Policing vs Colonial

However, when Indonesia invaded East Timor on the 7th of December 1975, it did so with essentially the acceptance of Australia extended by Gough Whitlam, based on a policy of appeasement (Cotton 2004: 31) Richard Woolcott, the Ambassador to Indonesia, concluded that a policy of ‘disengagement’ was best for Australia’s interests (Gorjão 2001: 108). The Whitlam government made it clear that it would not oppose Indonesia’s annexation of East Timor (Gorjão 2001: 108). Australia saw the occupation of

area, barbeque area, outdoor rock climbing facilities, and a lot of beautiful plant life and some native birds to watch. The locals consider this park to be its hidden oasis in the suburb. • Waterworth Park, on Bayview Avenue just opposite of Gough Whitlam Park, is a nice local park with barbeque, picnic, public toilet, and sporting field amenities. It provides a short walk to the Tempe station. Inside this park is the Cooks River Cycleway, Canterbury Touch Association, and the Canterbury Velodrome

The Vietnam War had a large impact on Australians. This was through all, soldiers, government and on the home front. On the home front there was public unrest. For the government they had lost their popularity, and for the soldiers they were not only fighting the war, they were fighting stress, chemicals and also the sight of death. The public unrest back on the home front consisted from television, protests and from the war dragging on. Firstly, television was new to the world. Especially towards

During the 19th century, five main phases have characterized immigration in Australia. The Gold Rush period in 1851, led immigrants from Europe and East Asia to migrate to Australia in search of gold finds (Spinks, 2010). The second phase of immigration occurred in 1871, when Egypt expanded its passage of the Suez Canal and migrants from Northern Africa and the Middle East were able to gain access to Australia’s southern seaports (Boulus, Dowding, and Pietsch, 2013). In 1901, however, the new Commonwealth