White Australia policy

In 1788, Europeans first discovered and settled in Australia. When Australia was established as a colony of Britain, the conflict between Indigenous people and white people had started. The British tried to displace Aboriginal people from their land. They made lots of policies to get rid of Aboriginal people and tried to assimilate Aboriginal people into ‘white’ society. In 1991, the process of reconciliation formally began and this process has been continuing till now. Although the Indigenous…

Henry Parkes is known as the father of federation, this was due to his large push for federation of Australia. Sir Henry Parkes was 5 time premier of New South Wales and had a large impact on Australia. Parks wanted a united country and a united government. He wanted Australia to be one country, working together. One of Parkes’ main reasons for his push for federation was the defect systems in Australia. Each colony had its own small armies and navies which sometimes even fought against each…

strong connection between theory and policy: the former inspires policy and the latter provides examples to theory (Jervis, 2004). Building upon this correlation, this paper analyses whether Australian Labor and Coalition approaches to Foreign and Defence policy are biased towards two main theories of International Relations: Realism and Liberalism. To this extent, it will be argued that the Labor Party tends to adopt a Liberal lens in Foreign and Defence policy, while the Coalition has a more…

thought of Aboriginal people at first. I recalled a friend’s excitement about his first holiday last year down under where his only perception about the Aboriginal people is the boomerang bought from a souvenir shop in Melbourne. Before coming to Australia, my impression about them was limited to black curly hair people living in the outback, boomerang, didgeridoo, traditional dance typically portrayed in tourism brochures. I hardly knew that these are merely some of stereotypes about the oldest…

Racism in Australia has a long history and is still as prominent in modern day society as it was many years before. The phenomenon of racism has a complex nature that can be thought to be of much less and subtle in recent decades yet has been argued differently by sociologist theories and discussions that there are still diverse forms of racism occurring in everyday life. The ‘racial hierarchy’ and ‘institutional racism’ helps to explain the prevalence of racism in Australia within originations…

The Aboriginals faced numerous issues after the white colony dominated Australia. The predominant issues they faced were the Protection and Assimilation policies. The Protection policy detached Aboriginal people from families and traditional land the Christian missionaries and government reserves believed were unsuitable for them. The aim was to isolate by disputing them into homes, reserves or missionaries until their Aboriginal beliefs, culture and spiritualties start to diminish. The distant…

The present religious landscape of Australia has significantly changed since 1945. The factors of this change include immigration, denominational switching, rise of the new age religions, secularism and Christianity as a major religious tradition. Australia has a wide variety of religions in its country, each with unique traditions of their own. The major religious tradition in Australia is Christianity, with the 2011 census showing 61% Christianity in Australia, and other religions making up…

were removed from their families, under a governmental policy known as the Assimilation Act. These children are commonly referred to as the ‘Stolen Generations’. Historical evidence suggests that the Stolen Generations impacted upon Indigenous Australians to a fundamental extent, causing everlasting pain, trauma and devastation. This essay will explore the implementation of this policy and the subsequent impact on the Indigenous people of Australia, as well as the government’s attempt to…

The society that will be researched is Australia, as it is culturally diverse and has many different subcultures within. It is evident that deviance is not relevant in a multicultural society such as Australia however it is still relevant in regard to subcultures within mainstream Australian society. 2.0 Australian Snapshot 2.1 Cultural Diversity in Australia Culture is historically defined as “the ideas, customs,…

about Article II (a), "killing members of the group", because the Aborigines, were members of a definable group. We know something 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…