Saturday recap : Aboriginal Community
Saturday recap : Aboriginal Community
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State violence is a great Australian tradition
State violence is a great Australian tradition - Most obviously, this brutalism was visited upon the Aboriginal population. From the earliest days, the invading British colonial forces sought to drive them off the land to make way for white settlement. Once the sheep industry took off west of the Great Dividing Range in the early 1830s, the process accelerated, and ancestral lands that had provided food and the wherewithal for Aboriginal survival for tens of thousands of years were seized to provide grazing grounds
New zoo to teach old ways
New zoo to teach old ways - Sydney Zoo is awaiting developer application approval to commence work on the Bungarribee Park site, which is slated to be open by the fourth quarter of 2017
How Indigenous people are still homeless in modern Australia
How Indigenous people are still homeless in modern Australia - Since colonisation, Aboriginal people have been internally displaced from their country. The doctrine of terra nullius – a land without people – was established under British colonial government and persisted in Australian law until 1992). It served to reinforce the concept that Indigenous land was “empty”; it belonged to no one and so could rightly be claimed for Western exploitation or settlement. This doctrine
The Colors of Infinity: Aboriginal abstract paintings come to Cornell
The Colors of Infinity: Aboriginal abstract paintings come to Cornell - The visual culture of the Australian Aborigines is believed to be the world's oldest extant, stretching back tens of thousands of years. Decorations on ...
Australia's youth justice scandal stirs race controversy
Australia's youth justice scandal stirs race controversy - The statistics are grim; indigenous Australians are 13 times more likely to go to prison than their non- Aboriginal counterparts. It is undoubtedly a ...
Why Australian women over 55 aren't exactly enjoying the time of their lives
Why Australian women over 55 aren't exactly enjoying the time of their lives - Australia lags behind most other developed countries when it comes to the economic and social well-being of people over 60. While the health status of older Australians is very good (fifth), we rank 17th overall and 67th for income security on a list of 96 countries.