With the exception of the remote parts of Australia, by 1901 Aborigines had lost control over their land. ... Aboriginal Australians and inequality (The first 2 decades of a new century) Aborigines did not fare well in the years up to World War 1. ... In the Northern Territory and Western Australia, Aborigines continued to live in reserves. ... In the 1920s the whole of Australia saw the first signs of Aborigines grouping together in an attempt to improve the overall status of their lives. ... During the years of the great depression, the Aborigines were probably less affected by the de...

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Australia?) ... They make up only 1% of the population in Australia. ... This separating process was repeated until all of Australia was occupied ~Religon: Aborigines achieve spirituality through a system of mythology and rutual known as Totemism. ... ~Government: The Aborigines themselves have no government. ... Language: Australia is mostly english speaking and adolescents age 15 and over are literate, but the aborigines have over 200 languages and 50 dialects which they are still native to till this day. ...

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"The Australian Aborigines: A Portrait of their Society" gives information about the customs, legal system, beliefs and cultures of Aborigines in Australia which is a comprehensive read for all people attempting to write an essay on Aboriginals in Australia. ... "Questions about Aborigines are among the most controversial in Australia. ... In the first chapter of the book titled "Remodelling Society", the author immediately brings up the idea of assimilation and how badly the Aborigines reacted to it. It also talks about the recovery of land by the Aborigines and how the government in power...

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Aborigines first arrived in Australia about 40,000 years ago. ... By the time the first European settlers arrived in Australia in 1788 there were perhaps as many as a million aborigines in Australia and over 200 to 250 different spoken dialects. ... The continuation of the racist mentality the European settlers had towards the aborigines only compounded the violence that the aborigines faced. ... Chinese immigrants also had relations with the indigenous people of Australia. ... In Queensland, thriving Opium traffic between Chinese and Aborigines saw opium used as a currency, much as rum was...

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The concept of Aboriginality is the survival, identity, and the cultural diversity of Australian Aborigines. The Australian Aborigines have been on this Australian land for over 40,000 years. ... Throughout it will explore the concept of Aboriginality of the Australian Aborigines, looking at the history of the Aborigines and exploring the culture of the Aborigines. In the 1930's, set the depression of the Australian Aborigines they were frequently not paid and if they were it was in rations, in the workplace Aborigines were the first people to be deployed. ... The Australian culture i...

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This is the name given to the native Australians by the Europeans. ... It's not quite sure how they came to Australia around 60,000 years ago. ... For Australia's Aborigines history began in the Dreamtime, a time in history when the earth was flat and the spirits travelled the country creating all the features and landscapes. ... What diseases did the settlers bring to Australia and what were the consequences? ... The High Court of Australia stated that the policy of Terra Nullius was not valid and that the first occupants of Australia were Aborigines. ...

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Aborigines are Australia's indigenous people which make up about two percent of Australia's total population. Aborigines are believed to have evolved as modern man in Africa about 190,000 years ago, moved into the Middle East by 120,000 years ago, then into Asia, and on to Australia at least 60,000 years ago. ... Aboriginal Australians are said to be the oldest surviving culture to this day. ... Australia has no official religion (Blashfield 2008:101). ... "The spiritual life of Australia's aborigines is closely tied to their daily life" (Blashfield 2008:101). ...

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The Aborigines of Australia have changed a great deal in the last fifty or so years. ... Since European settlers arrived in Australian in the late 18th Century, Aborigines were treated as sub-human. ... An ideal place to begin would be with assimilation of Aborigines in Australia. ... There are also other social traits of modern Australian life that many Aborigines find difficult to move into. ... So what roles do Aborigines play in modern Australia? ...

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For many, and especially Australians, genocide is something of the Germans, Cambodians and Hutus, not the Australians. ... Clearly, there is no Australian Dachau. ... As Australian federal law stands to this date, it is not illegal to commit domestic genocide in Australia. ... In fact, it is important that appeals to numbers not be taken into consideration, for in comparisons to the Holocaust there simply were not six million Aborigines living in Australia for the British to kill. ... Brief history of the Australian indigenous peoples The Aborigines achieved a balanced diet by hunting and ...

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When the British arrived in Australia, they declared the land Terra Nullius. ... This resulted in the British declaring sovereignty over Australia and taking over the Australian commonwealth of property and land. ... It allowed the Aborigines to use, enjoy and occupy the land. ... This is because the European system is one that has been imposed on them and has never, throughout history, put the needs and customs of the Aborigines first. The integration of Aboriginal customary law into the Australian legal system is recognized by the Australian Constitution. ...

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This group of people were the Aborigines. ... The Aborigines developed a good understanding of the land, and over a period of time grew to enhance a close bond with it. This link between the land and the Aborigines was unable to be understood by the second wave of migrants who came to Australia in 1788. ... In today's society approximately three million Australians, which is one in every five, were born outside of Australia. ... The 2000 Olympic games for example was a huge success in expressing the view and possibility of reconciliation between the White Australians and the Aborigines,...

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The Aborigines were not only stripped of their land and rights but were also abused and discriminated. ... In the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century, the educated opinion in Australia was generally that the full-blood tribal Aborigine represented a dying race, doomed in the fullness of time to extinction. To help the Aborigine race survive, Aboriginal children were taken from their parents and transferred into the white society to grow up in. ... One of the next attempts by the Australian community to address problems faced by indigenous people, was to develop Aboriginal legal and ...

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The Aborigines were the first group to inhabit Australia, which is located in the South East Asian region. ... The Aborigines stayed isolated from the rest of the world up to the early 1600's, when Europeans discovered the new land. ... While some Australians, like the Aborigines, have been here since the start of the commonwealth, others, such as the Italians, Greeks, and Turks, have migrated from WWII. ... The currency in Australia is the Australian dollar. ... The aborigines live amongst the new generation with ease. ...

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Australian aborigines Research by Athena Wong Australian aborigines, native people of Australia who probably came from somewhere in Asia at least 30,000 years ago. Aborigines were the first people who came to Australia. ... They had lived alone in Australia for more than 40,000 years until the arrival of the British settlers in 1788. ... Even today Aborigines believe in Dreamtime. ... Aborigines painted their bodies with colours of fruits and the Didjeridu was played by male Aborigines during ceremonies and celebrations. ...

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European Exploration During the period of exploration, Aborigines had inhabited Australia for an extensive period and during their time there, firm evidence suggests several countries visited. However Europeans did not settle Australia until 1770. ... But following a skirmish with Aborigines, he left with negative thoughts and neither the gold nor riches he had been seeking. ... He told everyone that Australia was " barren and miserable," that the place offered nothing that could make England wealthy and that Aborigines there were hostile. It was not until 1770 that the British decided t...

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Analysis of Australia *Geography* Australia is the sixth largest country in the world. ... A short while later, Aborigines landed in canoes and rafts on the north coast of Australia and then moved southward across the rest of the continent. Aborigines were nomads living in family clans, each with its own territory where it could camp, hunt, and fish. The Aborigines brought two useful items from their original homeland: the dingo and the boomerang. ... There is no dominant religion in Australia. ...

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The Aboriginal Protection Act of 1909 established strict controls for aborigines living on the reserves . ... "The old ways of the Aborigines were attacked by regimented efforts to make them European" . ... The policy of segregation had an enormous impact on the lives of aborigines. ... The policy of "assimilation" was officially adopted in 1937; its essence was the concept of "one Australian society" . ... The Australian government believed that although it may have been to late to assimilate adult aborigines into Australian society, that wasn't the case for the next generation of abo...

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As you are all aware of, the Aborigines have been the most racially prejudiced group in Australia. ... Another issue which I find ignominious in the history of Australia was voting rights for Aborigines. ... The government was concerned that Aborigines were not part of the Australian population, and thus should be excluded from any political decision making. ... Like wage inequity, the lack of voting rights for the Aborigines separated the indigenous and non-indigenous people of Australia. The Aborigines today are still very distant from Australia's politics. ...

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The tension and separation of races during a war seemed evident in Australia. ... I entirely agree with the above statement due to the unequal treatment of the aborigines, tension between the Japanese population and characters such as Hart showing lack of trust over his lover Mitsy With a war against the Japanese was the trigger for racism in Australia. ... The Japanese are somewhat divided from white Australians. ... Aborigines are treated unequally and are downgraded in Broome. ... Aborigines have been replaced with stereotypes and generalisations from the Broome community especially all a...

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The tension and separation of races during a war seemed evident in Australia. ... I entirely agree with the above statement due to the unequal treatment of the aborigines, tension between the Japanese population and characters such as Hart showing lack of trust over his lover Mitsy With a war against the Japanese was the trigger for racism in Australia. ... The Japanese are somewhat divided from white Australians. ... Aborigines are treated unequally and are downgraded in Broome. ... Aborigines have been replaced with stereotypes and generalisations from the Broome community especially all a...

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.: 250,000 _ groups: _ traditional _ urban (just under half of present population) _ there are similarities in the beliefs of different tribes _ spiritual dimension of the land _ present life is continuous with the Dreaming _ totemistic: animals/plants have associated symbols _ naturalistic: living off the land _ tied to the land: each group has a particular relationship with a particular piece of land _ The Dreaming as being fundamental to Aboriginal Culture and Societies _ 5 distinct features of Aboriginal Spirituality: Spiritual " spirits are natural to the world _ each person ...

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Western Australia is one of most affected states by aborigines with the largest amount of aborigines and aboriginal crime. ... Year 2000 figures showed an 8% drop in the number of aborigines in higher education. ... Australian's are reluctant to take the next step in the reconciliation process and deliver equality to indigenous people by recognizing their rights through a treaty between black and white Australia. Much more needs to be done to combat racism in Australia but the government refuses to appologise to indigenous Australians for past injustices. ... Is the black labeling of ab...

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Nearly all of Wright's poems are typically Australian, she deals with Australian issues and uses rich powerful Australian imagery. Her love of Australia, her ancestry and the environment make her much loved by the Australian community and this is why she is a great poet. ... As well as appealing to Australians of European origin Wright also reaches out to Aborigines by exploring the issue of how they were wronged when Australia was populated. ... As well as appealing to Aborigines these poems also provide an insight for all Australians into why Aborigines have the grievances th...

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They were the first people to colonise Australia. ... The ship was sent to the unknown continent of Australia. ... Life in the colony from the perspective of the Aborigines When the British first arrived in Australia they were unaware of the Aboriginal people who had lived here for thousands of years. ... The Aborigines constantly fought with the British about their right to the land in which they lived on. Many Aborigines tried to strop the taking over of their land and were consequently killed by the British. ...

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They also believe that Australia took its shape and from the Dreaming Tracks. ... In 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip sailed into the shores of Australia. ... This caused debate among indigenous people who wanted their land back to practise religious obligations, the Australian government and the Australian justice system. ... This therefore gave the aborigines rights to the land, which existed before colonisation and in the present. The Mabo outcome was not only a significant step for the Meriam people it was also a giant step for aborigines from all over Australia. ...

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