Australian Aboriginal kinship

This essay aims to highlight and critically analyse aspects of the Australian workforce. Establishing the requirements and ramifications surrounding curriculum vitae’s (‘CV’s) and how it can possibly be improved to ensure job perspectives remain on an appropriate playing field for all prospective employees. It will then highlight and discuss the ever increasingly spoken about issues surrounding romantic relationship in the workforce with correlation to the recent law reforms in the United States…

disparities gap between the Australian government and Indigenous people. This movement was outlined in Prime Minister Rudd’s 2008 Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples speech. In Prime Minister Rudd’s speech, he outlined several initiatives known as the Close the Gap Approach, that he believed would reset the relationship between Australian governments and Indigenous peoples as well as lower the disparities between them (Rudd, 2008). The approach has reduced Indigenous Australians to a range…

about the physical killings, particularly in the latter half of the last and the early part of this century. The first white settlers came to Tasmania in 1803, and by 1806 the serious killing began [26]. In retaliation for the spearing of livestock, Aboriginal children were abducted for use in forced labor, women were raped and tortured and given poisoned flour, and the men were shot. They were systematically disposed of in ones, twos and threes, or in dozens, rather than in one systematic…

Indigenous peoples do not have an equal opportunity to be as healthy as non-Indigenous Australians There has been very little progress in reducing this inequality gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australians over the past decade, for example in relation to long term measures such as life expectation Death rates from cardiovascular disease in the general population have fallen 30% since 1991, and 70% in the last 35-years16 whereas Indigenous people do not…

“Other people’s lives are so different to mine” Turtles can fly, set in a Kurdish refugee camp on the border between Turkey and Iraq, and directed by Bahman Ghobadi. The film shows the struggle of the Kurdish people that are stuck under the rule of Saddam and how this affects the lives of the children. Firstly this essay will examine how the children in Kurdistan are forced to become adults at a young age, then it will analyse how education was considered useless and how that differs to the…

The issue leading into the October Federal Election in Canada that I have chosen is the issue about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. This issue is and should be important to me and other citizens as we Canadians pride ourselves with our image of progressive tolerance. However, the alarming number of Indigenous women and girls attacked due to their ethnicities in this country contradicts this idea of Canada. The treatment of Indigenous peoples is the most shameful part of Canadian…

dispositioning Australia’s First People (Dudgeon, Milroy & Walker, 2014, p. 7). In 1905 an act named as the Western Australian Aborigines Act 1905 saw a Chief Protector of Aborigines become the legal guardian of all Aboriginal people. This saw the removal of children from their families and further dispositioning of Aboriginal people. Between the years of 1900 and 1972 approximately ten to thirty percent of children born were removed…

children as stated by Australians together. The separation of the aboriginal children from their parents had a massive and still felt impact on the children and the families. Many aboriginal cultures were lost…

on the lawn in front of what is now known as the Old Parliament House. Four Aboriginal people from Sydney travelled to Canberra and erected a beach umbrella, increased support soon followed as more Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians arrived with tents to lend their support. This essay will detail the effect of the Tent Embassy establishment in Canberra in 1972 and what impact this has on the Indigenous Australian people. An analysis will be completed of this event and what impact it had…

Dr Gary Foley, an Aboriginal Gumbaynggirr activist, historian and leader effective between the years 1971 to 2000, has used his ties to his Aboriginal heritage and fame to become highly efficient in his field. Foley utilises an array of methods including his involvement in major political activities, his acting career and his countless informative essays to raise awareness and truth about the Aboriginal population within Australia. Gary Foley spent the majority of his youth in Nambucca Heads,…